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Refined Guidelines with Checklist for Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Citizen Science will keep the guidelines that are sustainable and introduce those that are most relevant for the current situation of CS internationally.

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In 2022 we as a group of researchers created Guidelines for Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Citizen Science dedicated to Masters and Doctoral students and their supervisors, to facilitate CS-related research activities for citizen science (CS) in line with the values of academic integrity. We reviewed a pool of 85 papers to identify nine topics covering 22 guidelines. To dive deeper into each guideline further readings were recommended. However, due to intensive changes in social and virtual realities since the beginning of 2022 (e.g., rapid spread and development AI, Open science policies, increased relevance of science security etc.) these Guidelines should be updated and refined in a tangible manner.

A variety of methods will be used to respond to current realities of CS. The Guidelines will be complemented not only by literature review of last 5 five years (since last literature review date of the Guidelines were made in 2021), but also by conducting expert interviews with researchers from academia (e.g., dealing with issues in science security, open science, AI) highlighting the issues that are still important and those which arose and became more relevant due to the societal and technological changes. The review experienced citizen scientist will also be included to receive the feedback of the refined version to finalize the document.

The guidelines will also include a checklist for those who want to initiate the CS research in line with academic ethics.