I’m curious - on GBIF, is there any way to see if your observations have been cited by any studies? I love feeling like I’m making a difference in the scientific world when I upload to iNat, and it would be really cool to see if I’ve actually contributed to any real-life studies. Purely self-indulge…

GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility https://www.gbif.org/

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 sc…

You can google search your Inat user name and occasionally links will pop-up that have used your observations. I recently found that Reptile Association of Canada used one of my observations for their newsletter. I thought that was pretty cool.

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

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

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