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In a typical citizen science scenario, various groups take on various roles in a research process, often linked to educational, social, or personal goals. According to a common belief, such activity should benefit all parties involved, and no participating individual should behave in the service of others or for the ultimate purpose. As a facilitator of open science (OS) activities, citizen science (CS) is an accessible approach for developing activities proposed in the various objectives of a scientific investigation. The methodology selected for this study is bibliometrics, which seeks to examine research trends at both a descriptive and analytical level to find out the journals, authors, and keywords, as well as the productive leadership and the type of collaboration used in the research works of open access journals obtained from Scopus database, as well as the scientific evolution in the last decade. As of May 6, 2023, considering the SJR 2022, the bibliometric analysis yielded 1,881 documents developed in the last decade (2013-2022) that mentioned topics related to citizen science in their titles, as well as the various related words, where you can visualize a weighted growth of 35.03% in the last decade, with the USA being the one with the highest number of documents obtained with 629, followed by England (441), with the journal PLOS One being the one that indexed the most significant number of documents (86), followed by the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (70), and carried out the analysis using Bradford's law, 24 journals were found in the core of specialization according to the topic of interest to be investigated, which indexed 621 documents, while the author with the highest number of
scientific productions was King A.C, with a total of 20 documents, which obtained 353 citations, followed by Haklay M., with 17 documents. Regarding keywords, 9,860 were found (author keywords and Index keywords), divided into five clusters or related groups, determined by link strength, with a minimum occurrence of ten keywords. This is the first bibliometric study where all the documents on topics addressed in citizen science have been analyzed, a topic of interest worldwide, which has been increasing in the last decade.
