The role of citizen science in mosquito-borne disease surveillance and control: A scoping review
Nima Kianfar, Kimia Savoji, Xiao Huang, Di Yang, Abe Mollalo · 2026
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Nima Kianfar and co-authors reviewed sixty-one studies on how ordinary people help track and control diseases spread by mosquitoes. Official surveillance is costly and patchy, while phone apps and backyard reporting can widen coverage cheaply. The team searched five major databases across a quarter century and catalogued how each project recruited helpers, checked their data, and used the results.
Most studies appeared after twenty seventeen and clustered in Europe and the Americas, with very few in Asia. Malaria drew the most attention, then dengue, and most projects ran in cities. The authors find citizen science a genuine complement to official systems, while warning that bias in who reports, and uneven data checking, still limit how far the results can be trusted.
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| CREATOR | Nima Kianfar, Kimia Savoji, Xiao Huang, Di Yang, Abe Mollalo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61141 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |