Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesCitizen Science: An Emerging Field for Information Related Studies

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Citizen Science: An Emerging Field for Information Related Studies,"
by Yuxiang Zhao, Qinghua Zhu, Hao Wang,
in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2011, Nov. 2011, pp.518-521

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

The authors miscredited text throughout this paper, using incorrect referencing. Also, due to the absence of quotation marks or offset text, copied material is not clearly referenced or specifically identified. Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be avoided.

Citizen Science is a form of research collaboration involving public participants in scientific research projects to solve real-world problems. With the sweeping progress of Web 2.0 technologies and capabilities, the availability of large scientific data sets through the Internet has allowed citizen science projects to engage volunteers in new ways. We believe that information field scholars have a unique position to make significant contributions to this emerging research area. This paper firstly seeks to present the origin and development of citizen science, and pinpoint its conceptualization. Furthermore, the paper identifies several important research directions for information management scholars from four perspectives that remain unaddressed and warrant further study. The research contributes to the Information field and provides insights for iSchool scholars to better understand various issues in citizen science.