Rassolova, E. N., & Galkin, K. A. (2025). The interaction of professional and citizen science: issues of power and communication. Tyumen State University Herald. Social, Economic, and Law Research, 11(1), 72–87. https: ...

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Abstract

The article examines the specifics of the development of communication between professional researchers and amateur scientists, as well as successful projects in the field of citizen science, where such communication has successfully developed. T he study has analyzed scientific publications (a total of 500) by Russian and authors from other countries on overcoming monopoly in professional science, communica tion, and interactions between citizen and professional science, and publications on the distribution of power in professional science. The method of analysis is low-quali ty content analysis. The purpose of the study is to consider the features of interaction between professional and citizen science and analyze the most successful examples of cooperation. Based on the analysis of publications, three types of strategies were identified that characterize the specifics of the interaction of professional science with citizen science and the features of the interactions of professional scientists with ama teurs were determined. Each of the strategies has its own specifics of communication and organization of the scientific community, and is also characterized by a certain degree of оpenness/closeness. The study also analyzes successful communication development projects in professional and civic science.