Galaxy Zoo Talk

Citizen Science and Erdos numbers

  • marcus_hill by marcus_hill

    It occurred to me when I was reminded by a radio interview that the Zooniverse volunteers are listed on the site and acknowledged in the publications that the idea of "co-authorship" in determining Erdos Numbers isn't particularly clear, since the concept predates Citizen Science projects. If volunteers count as co-authors, everyone who is on the Galaxy Zoo 2 list has an Erdos number of at most 4, since I'm on there and mine is 3.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to marcus hill's comment.

    Interesting.

    And if you were active on the GZ forum, does that make any difference to your Erdos number for GZ2? Or does that count for GZ1 only?

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