Process, Not Product: Investigating Recommendations for Improving Citizen Science "Success"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Freitag, Amy ^a   Pfeffer, Max J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITIZEN SCIENCE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877732412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064079     Document Type: Article

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