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Biomedical Citizen Science at the National Institutes of Health

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 7 (2022): Issue 1
By: Ellen Mintz and  Jennifer Couch  
Open Access
|Dec 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.543 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 15, 2022
Accepted on: Oct 8, 2022
Published on: Dec 15, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
biomedical,
citizen science,
crowdsourcing,
community science,
games,
community engagement

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