Authorship Protocols Must Change to Credit Citizen Scientists

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 187-190

  Ward Fear, Georgia ^a   Pauly, Gregory B ^b   Vendetti, Jann E ^b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; community science; group coauthorship; research ethics; traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; PUBLISHING;

EID: 85079209414     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.007     Document Type: Note

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