Scientists@Home: What drives the quantity and quality of online citizen science participation?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Nov, Oded ^a   Arazy, Ofer ^b,c   Anderson, David ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; ONLINE CITIZEN SCIENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; INTERNET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INTERNET; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 84898883461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090375     Document Type: Article

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