Is there a way to see what studies your observations have been cited by?

In short: it’s a website with organism records from thousands of sources. It currently has more than 3 billion occurrence records from 113 thousand datasets.
If you use CC0, CC BY or CC BY-NC license, after some time your research grade observations will also be avalible on GBIF. It’s easier for scientist to use the observations on GBIF.

From GBIF’s ‘What is GBIF?’ page:

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

From iNat Help page titled ‘How are iNaturalist data used for research?’:

Naturalist observations are used in thousands of scientific publications . Many of them are using data that are shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility as part of the iNaturalist Research-Grade Observations dataset. You can browse the ongoing list of the publications that have cited a GBIF dataset containing at least one record from iNaturalist.

From iNat Help page titled ‘How can I download data from iNaturalist?’:

If you plan to publish a paper using iNaturalist data, we recommend downloading iNaturalist data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility because they will issue a citable DOI (see this FAQ for more details).

From iNat Help page titled ‘How should I cite iNaturalist?’:

Please cite a GBIF download whenever possible! The easiest way for us to track research using iNaturalist is for you to download and cite a corresponding dataset from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Once per week, research grade records on iNaturalist that are licensed for re-use are shared with GBIF.

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