Crowdsourcing the Human Gut. Is crowdsourcing also ‘citizen science’?

The participation of non-professionally trained people in so-called citizenscience (CS) projects is a much discussed topic at the moment.Frequently, however, the contribution of citizens is limited to only a fewnarrow tasks. Focusing on an initiative dedicated to the study of the humanmicrobiome, this paper describes such a case where citizen participation islimited to the provision of funding, samples, and personal data.Researchers opted for a crowdsourced approaches because other forms offunding and recruitment did not seem…