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  1. Article

    Open Access

    Citizen science for social physics: digital tools and participation

    Social physics is an active and diverse field in which many scientists with formal training in physics study a broad class of complex social phenomena. Social physics investigates societal problems but most of...

    Josep Perelló, Ferran Larroya, Isabelle Bonhoure in The European Physical Journal Plus (2024)

  2. Article

    Open Access

    Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area

    The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mobility patterns and pedestrian...

    Ferran Larroya, Ofelia Díaz, Oleguer Sagarra, Pol Colomer Simón in Scientific Data (2023)

  3. Article

    Open Access

    Reformulating computational social science with citizen social science: the case of a community-based mental health care research

    Computational social science is being scrutinised and some concerns have been expressed with regards to the lack of transparency and inclusivity in some of the researches. However, how computational social sci...

    Isabelle Bonhoure, Anna Cigarini in Humanities and Social Sciences Communicati… (2023)

  4. Chapter

    Editorial: The Science of Citizen Science Evolves

    Citizen science broadly refers to the active engagement of the general public in scientific research tasks. Citizen science is a growing practice in which scientists and citizens collaborate to produce new knowle...

    Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-Zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni in The Science of Citizen Science (2021)

  5. Chapter

    Citizen Social Science: New and Established Approaches to Participation in Social Research

    This chapter explores the ways in which the roles of citizens and researchers play out in the social sciences. This is expressed by numerous overlap** and related terms, such as co-production and participato...

    Alexandra Albert, Bálint Balázs, Eglė Butkevičienė in The Science of Citizen Science (2021)

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  7. Chapter

    The Recent Past and Possible Futures of Citizen Science: Final Remarks

    This book is the culmination of the COST Action CA15212 Citizen Science to Promote Creativity, Scientific Literacy, and Innovation throughout Europe. It represents the final stage of a shared journey taken over t...

    Josep Perelló, Andrzej Klimczuk, Anne Land-Zandstra in The Science of Citizen Science (2021)

  8. Chapter

    Participation and Co-creation in Citizen Science

    Citizen science practices have different frames to general scientific research – the adoption of participatory methods in research design has long been pursued in citizen science projects. The citizen science ...

    Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Josep Perelló, Frank Becker in The Science of Citizen Science (2021)

  9. Article

    Open Access

    Gender-based pairings influence cooperative expectations and behaviours

    The study explores the expectations and cooperative behaviours of men and women in a lab-in-the-field experiment by means of citizen science practices in the public space. It specifically examines the influenc...

    Anna Cigarini, Julián Vicens, Josep Perelló in Scientific Reports (2020)

  10. Article

    Open Access

    Map** individual behavior in financial markets: synchronization and anticipation

    In this paper we develop a methodology, based on Mutual Information and Transfer of Entropy, that allows to identify, quantify and map on a network the synchronization and anticipation relationships between fi...

    Mario Gutiérrez-Roig, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alex Arenas in EPJ Data Science (2019)

  11. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    An Innovative Online Tool to Self-evaluate and Compare Participatory Research Projects Labelled as Science Shops or Citizen Science

    Participatory research keeps expanding to connect science and society through engaging projects using a multi-stakeholder strategy, including citizens. However, each participatory project follows different ev...

    Anne-Sophie Gresle, Anna Cigarini, Leonardo de la Torre Avila in Internet Science (2019)

  12. Article

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    Author Correction: Quantitative account of social interactions in a mental health care ecosystem: cooperation, trust and collective action

    A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.

    Anna Cigarini, Julián Vicens, Jordi Duch, Angel Sánchez in Scientific Reports (2018)

  13. Article

    Open Access

    Quantitative account of social interactions in a mental health care ecosystem: cooperation, trust and collective action

    Mental disorders have an enormous impact in our society, both in personal terms and in the economic costs associated with their treatment. In order to scale up services and bring down costs, administrations ar...

    Anna Cigarini, Julián Vicens, Jordi Duch, Angel Sánchez in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Article

    Transition from reciprocal cooperation to persistent behaviour in social dilemmas at the end of adolescence

    While human societies are extraordinarily cooperative in comparison with other social species, the question of why we cooperate with unrelated individuals remains open. Here we report results of a lab-in-the-f...

    Mario Gutiérrez-Roig, Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Josep Perelló in Nature Communications (2014)

  15. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The CTRWs in finance: the mean exit time

    The continuous time random walk (CTRW) has become a widely-used tool for studying the microstructure of random process appearing in many physical phenomena. We here report the CTRW analysis applied to the mark...

    Jaume Masoliver, Miquel Montero, Josep Perelló in Practical Fruits of Econophysics (2006)