In 2021 Sweden’s first national portal for citizen science will be launched to help researchers practice sustainable and responsible citizen science with different societal stakeholders. This paper present findings from two surveys on attitudes and experiences of citizen science among researchers at Swedish universities. Both surveys provided input to the development of the national portal, for which researchers are a key stakeholder group. The first survey (n=636) was exclusively focused on citizen science and involved researchers and other personnel at Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). 63% of respondents at SLU had heard about citizen science (CS) prior to the survey; however a majority of these (61%) had not been involved in any CS initiative themselves. Dominant reasons for researchers choosing a CS approach in projects were to enable collection of large amounts of data (68%), improving the knowledge base (59%), improving data quality (25%), promote participants’ understanding in research (21%) and promote collaboration between the university and society (20%). The other survey (n=3 699) was on the broader topic of communication and open science, including questions on CS, and was distributed to researchers from all Swedish universities. 61% of respondents had not been engaged in any research projects where volunteers were involved in the process. A minority of the researchers had participated in projects were volunteers had collected data (18%), been involved in internal or external communication (16%), contributed project ideas (14%) and/or formulated research questions (11%). Nearly four out of ten respondents (37%) had heard about CS prior to the survey. The researchers were more positive towards having parts of the research process open to citizen observation, rather than open to citizen influence/participation. Our results show that CS is a far from well-known concept among Swedish researchers. And while those who have heard about CS are generally positive towards it, researchers overall are hesitant to invite citizens to take part in the research process.

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瑞典研究人员对公民科学的认识、观点和经验——两项调查

2021 年，瑞典将启动第一个国家公民科学门户网站，以帮助研究人员与不同的社会利益相关者一起实践可持续和负责任的公民科学。本文介绍了两项关于瑞典大学研究人员对公民科学的态度和经验的调查结果。两项调查都为国家门户网站的开发提供了投入，研究人员是该门户网站的关键利益相关者群体。第一次调查 (n=636) 专门针对公民科学，涉及瑞典农业科学大学 (SLU) 的研究人员和其他人员。SLU 63% 的受访者在调查前听说过公民科学 (CS)；然而，其中大多数 (61%) 本身并未参与任何 CS 计划。研究人员在项目中选择 CS 方法的主要原因是能够收集大量数据 (68%)、改进知识库 (59%)、提高数据质量 (25%)、促进参与者对研究的理解 (21% ) 并促进大学与社会之间的合作 (20%)。另一项调查 (n=3 699) 涉及更广泛的交流和开放科学主题，包括有关 CS 的问题，并分发给所有瑞典大学的研究人员。61% 的受访者没有参与任何志愿者参与的研究项目。少数参与项目的研究人员是志愿者收集数据 (18%)、参与内部或外部沟通 (16%)、提供项目想法 (14%) 和/或制定研究问题 (11%)。近十分之四的受访者 (37%) 在调查之前听说过 CS。研究人员更倾向于让部分研究过程对公民观察开放，而不是对公民影响/参与开放。我们的研究结果表明，CS 在瑞典研究人员中远不是众所周知的概念。虽然那些听说过 CS 的人普遍对它持积极态度，但研究人员总体上不愿邀请公民参与研究过程。