Citizen Science Participation Statistics: Volunteers, Observations, and Global Research
Explore participation and output statistics from iNaturalist, Zooniverse, City Nature Challenge, RSPB, NASA GLOBE, and GBIF.
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Source-based context and useful figures about collaboration & ideas, with dates and limitations explained.
Explore participation and output statistics from iNaturalist, Zooniverse, City Nature Challenge, RSPB, NASA GLOBE, and GBIF.
A source-linked overview of crowdsourced mapping participation, from OpenStreetMap's global contributor base to regional hubs, mapathons, and disaster responses.
Explore measured statistics on crowdsourcing across federal projects, citizen science, archival work, and digital platform labor.
Data collection statistics reveal a persistent gap between the value people see in data and their concerns about privacy, security and accountability.
A source-labeled overview of data labeling statistics, from contributor networks and annotation formats to AI data quality and economic impact.
A data-led overview of U.S. freelancing, from contractor rates and earnings to independent-work participation, skills, and business adoption.
Federal Reserve and Census statistics show who participates in gig work, how much time it takes, and where related businesses operate.
A data-focused look at how people create, classify, map, and improve information through large-scale online collaboration.
A data-focused overview of Kaggle's scale, competition formats, collaboration features, and documented platform history.
These knowledge sharing statistics show where information gets lost, which tool capabilities matter most, and how organizations view future investment.
Microtasking spans a global network of workers and platforms, with major differences in time, income, geography, gender, and work formality.
A data-led look at how people contribute to, discover, verify, and learn through online knowledge communities.
A source-based collection of online survey statistics on participation, question completion, devices, survey modes and fieldwork costs.
A country-by-country view of open data policy, portal performance, impact, quality, and maturity scores reported for 2023.
Open innovation challenge participation ranges from specialist research calls to global NASA programs, with clear differences in scale, geography, and engagement.
A data-focused look at North Carolina voter participation from 1988 through 2024, including election type, voting method, party, and age.
Explore Quora statistics on monthly visitors, topics, audience characteristics, advertising options, user guidance, and app marketplace data.
Explore Reddit's 2024 audience, revenue, community, messaging, moderation, and advertising statistics by quarter and reporting period.
U.S. ACS response statistics from 2020 through 2024 show how participation and nonresponse reasons changed across housing units and group quarters.
User generated content influences brand discovery, purchase decisions, travel, fashion, online shopping, community activity, and creator income.
A source-labeled overview of Wikipedia's scale, participation, usage, media activity, and Wikimedia Foundation financial figures.
A fact-based overview of Amazon Mechanical Turk workforce size, worker activity, earnings, geography, task limits, and requester metrics.
A data-focused overview of citizen science participation, platform activity, geographic reach, and scientific use.
See how the measured shares of selected countries in U.S. international articles with a Chinese coauthor changed across five benchmark years.
Statistics on how people build knowledge together, from online communities and citizen science to research on group intelligence.
Explore quantified crowdsourced content statistics from Wikipedia, GitHub, Reddit, Stack Overflow and YouTube, with dates and measurement scopes made explicit.
Explore measured participation, contributions, coverage, and public uses across major crowdsourced data projects.
NASA and federal program figures show how crowdsourced innovation scales participation, challenges, citizen science, and public-sector problem solving.
Pew Research Center data on Kickstarter journalism projects reveals how crowdsourced reporting was funded, organized, and geographically planned through 2015.
A data-led overview of participation, project reach, demographics, review evidence, and publication patterns in crowdsourced research.