Scoping Review of Technology Use in Animal-Related Citizen Science Projects

Sangita Ganesh published a scoping review on 2026-05-21, analyzing 153 studies on the challenges and opportunities of technology use for coordinators of animal-related citizen science projects. The review followed the PRISMA framework, sourcing articles from Web of Science, Proquest, and Scopus. It synthesizes findings on technology types, adoption patterns, and reported benefits and challenges.

Use Cases

• Identify common technology adoption patterns based on the reported prevalence of social media and mobile applications.
• Analyze reported challenges to project sustainability based on themes like accessibility, conflicting goals, and data quality issues.
• Compare technology benefits across different project contexts based on reported capabilities for customization and low-cost organization.
• Investigate geographic and community engagement gaps based on the noted under-representation of studies considering local contexts, especially in the Global South.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on a defined corpus of 153 included studies.
• Methodology is explicitly described as following the PRISMA framework for scoping reviews.
• Findings quantify the most common technology type, with social media used in 80 studies (52%).

Limitations

• The dataset is a 55.1 KB PDF document, indicating a limited scope focused on review findings rather than raw project data.
• Row count and column-level documentation for the underlying extracted data are unknown.
• The data reflects the literature available up to the review date and may have publication or geographic bias.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Sangita Ganesh.

Collection Method

Scoping review following PRISMA, with data extracted from 153 studies sourced from Web of Science, Proquest, and Scopus.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 05:42:39.