For publications from 2024 onwards, please use the new wiki for that year This is a third wiki for providing a user-curated list of scientific publications that use iNaturalist data, covering the years 2022 and 2023. We reached the character limit with previous wikis for the period up to 2019 , and …

Fantastic! 2,734 species. I added the publication to the wiki above.

Very prominent place for iNaturalist here: Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R., 2023. Online community photo-sharing in entomology: a large-scale review with suggestions on best practices. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 20, 1–29. Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saad021 .

One of the authors wrote a a cool “X” thread here .

Thanks for that excellent article. It answers many questions and doubts I’ve been mulling over.

That’s a great article and a clear, balanced discussion of what sort of information sites like iNat can provide and what their limitations are/things that need to be considered with using such data sets.

If it hasn’t been linked yet, here’s one using iNaturalist mosquito data: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/8/675

The coverage of limitations is great. I also really like how the Fig 11 legend mentions, “Fortunately, 2 dedicated carabidologists corrected hundreds of incorrect identifications after January 2022.” For science!

I just added a paper I wrote, it reports 3 new naturalized species in Hawaii found with the aide of iNaturalist data.

I just added the following to the wiki. Probably redundant to the list available through GBIF since it used iNat data from GBIF. But I wanted to highlight it and toot iNat’s horn a bit with it: Calvente, A., Alves da Silva, A.P., Edler, D., Antunes Carvalho, F., Fantinati, M.R., Zizka, A., and Anto…

[image] jdmore: The take-away for me was that, at least in this relatively easily identifiable taxonomic group, iNaturalist records outperformed all other sources including museum specimens for utility in research. Which will hopefully help to dispel some of the disparaging things that have b…

Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 3 (2022 and 2023) - #57 by thebeachcomber - General

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Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 1 (up to 2019) General	51	13698	March 11, 2021
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 4 (2024-2025) General	30	4380	April 23, 2026
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 2 (2020 and 2021) General	20	5951	July 16, 2025
Not an unbiased dataset General	36	4055	October 4, 2020
Published papers that use iNaturalist data - wiki 5 (2026 and 2027) General	5	679	July 31, 2026