Abstract Issues related to the evolving role of citizen science and open science are reviewed and discussed in this article. We focus on the changing approaches to science, research and development related to the turn to openness and transparency, which has made science more open and inclusive, even for non-researchers. Reproducible and collaborative research, which is driven by the open access principles, involves citizens in many research fields. The article shows how international support is pushing citizen science forward, and how citizens’ involvement is becoming more important. A basic scientometric analysis (based on the Web of Science Core Collection as the source of peer reviewed articles) provides a first insight into the diffusion of the citizen science concept in the field of Geography, mapping the growth of citizen science articles over time, the spectrum of geographical journals that publish them, and their citation rate compared to other scientific disciplines. The authors also discuss future challenges of citizen science and its potential, which for the time being seems to be not fully utilized in some fields, including geographical research.

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公民科学作为地理学及其他领域的一种新方法：回顾与反思

摘要本文对与公民科学和开放科学的角色演变有关的问题进行了回顾和讨论。我们关注与开放和透明相关的科学，研究和开发方法的变化，这使科学变得更加开放和包容，即使对于非研究人员也是如此。由开放获取原则驱动的可重复和协作研究使公民参与了许多研究领域。文章显示了国际支持如何推动公民科学向前发展，以及公民的参与日益重要。基本的科学计量分析（基于Web of Science核心收藏作为同行评审文章的来源）提供了对公民科学概念在地理领域的传播的初步了解，绘制随时间推移而增长的公民科学文章，发布这些文章的地理期刊的范围以及与其他科学学科相比的引用率。作者还讨论了公民科学及其潜力的未来挑战，目前，这些挑战似乎在包括地理研究在内的某些领域尚未得到充分利用。