Literature specifically evaluating the usefulness of iNat data in science?

[thebeachcomber]

@wormwellv

I would like to know how far it stretches into the ‘citizen science’ realm from beyond merely a sort of social media where people share observations of nature.

there are many papers that extensively use iNat data, including very large datasets, in increasingly sophisticated analyses

have a flick through https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-1-up-to-2019/2859 and https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/published-papers-that-use-inaturalist-data-wiki-2-2020-onwards/20913