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June 21, 2021
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Promoting citizen science in the energy sector: Generation Solar, an open database of small-scale solar photovoltaic installations

Publicated to: F1000Research. 1 21- - 2021-01-01 1(), DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13069.2

Authors:

del Cañizo C; Cristóbal AB; Barbosa L; Revuelta G; Haas S; Victoria M; Brocklehurst M
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Affiliations

Aarhus Universitet - Author
Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
KempleyGreen Consultants - Author
Reiner Lemoine Institut gGmbH - Author
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona - Author
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Abstract

Citizen science is becoming an effective approach in building a new relationship between science and society, in which the desire of citizens to participate actively in knowledge production meets the needs of researchers. A citizen science initiative dealing with the development of photovoltaics (PV) is presented. To generate a 'responsible' initiative, the research question has been designed collectively from the beginning, involving diverse actors in order to encourage creativity while addressing their interests and concerns. The result has been called Generation Solar. It aims at co-creating an open database of PV installations including their technical characteristics, and an online map for visualizing them. The initiative responds to a clear scientific demand; an important drawback for researchers working on energy modelling and predictions of production lays precisely in the lack of information about these installations' locations and characteristics. The initiative invites citizens, companies and public institutions with a PV installation to collaborate by providing such data. Data will follow the format of Open Power System Data in order to be fully exploitable by the scientific community and society. The success of the initiative will rely on the capacity to mobilize citizens and register the largest possible number of installations worldwide.
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Keywords

Citizen scienceEnergyOpen dataPhotovoltaicsPublic engagement

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal F1000Research due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Miscellaneous). Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-26:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 10 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/85970/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 125
  • Downloads: 44
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Denmark; Germany.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (CAÑIZO NADAL, CARLOS DEL) .

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