Authorship and Citizen Science: Seven Heuristic Rules.

Autor: Sandin P; Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7043, 75651, Uppsala, Sweden. per.sandin@slu.se., Baard P; Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden., Bülow W; Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden., Helgesson G; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Science and engineering ethics [Sci Eng Ethics] 2024 Oct 29; Vol. 30 (6), pp. 53. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 29.
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-024-00516-x
Abstrakt: Citizen science (CS) is an umbrella term for research with a significant amount of contributions from volunteers. Those volunteers can occupy a hybrid role, being both 'researcher' and 'subject' at the same time. This has repercussions for questions about responsibility and credit, e.g. pertaining to the issue of authorship. In this paper, we first review some existing guidelines for authorship and their applicability to CS. Second, we assess the claim that the guidelines from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), known as 'the Vancouver guidelines', may lead to exclusion of deserving citizen scientists as authors. We maintain that the idea of including citizen scientists as authors is supported by at least two arguments: transparency and fairness. Third, we argue that it might be plausible to include groups as authors in CS. Fourth and finally, we offer a heuristic list of seven recommendations to be considered when deciding about whom to include as an author of a CS publication.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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