What is citizen science? - A scientometric meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kullenberg, Christopher ^a   Kasperowski, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; SOCIOLOGY; WEB OF SCIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 84955240073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147152     Document Type: Article

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