Scientists@Home: What Drives the Quantity and Quality of Online Citizen Science Participation?

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090375
• Publication Date: 2014-04-01T20:47:11Z
• Authors: Oded Nov; Ofer Arazy; David Anderson
• Keywords: Citizen Science; Crowdsourcing; Online participation

Online citizen science offers a low-cost way to strengthen the infrastructure for scientific research and engage members of public in science. As sustainability online projects depends on volunteers who contribute their skills, time, energy, objective this study is investigate effects motivational factors quantity quality scientists' contribution. Building social movement participation model, findings from longitudinal empirical three different reveal that contribution determined by collective motives, norm-oriented reputation, intrinsic motives. Contribution quality, other hand, positively affected only motives reputation. We discuss implications motivation technology-mediated practice