Scope of the Community Science Exchange
CSE focuses on work that is performed by, with and for communities, including geographically-bound communities and communities defined by culture, history, values and/or shared lived experience. We welcome a range of work spanning community-owned and -managed research (COMR) through citizen science. All submissions must clearly demonstrate an authentic commitment to braid together community-held knowledge and scientific knowledge in support of discovery and/or problem-solving. We encourage interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches.
Aims for the Community Science Exchange's Hub
Make your work visible: As a transdisciplinary space, the Hub's readership includes both academics and community members.
Help define the growing field of community science: Submit stand-alone materials that tell the story of your community science experience, or provide guidelines or tools for others.
Push science forward: Complement your peer-reviewed article in the journal Community Science (or other scholarly journal) with materials that deepen understanding of community engagement and collaboration in science.
Get scholarly credit: All materials published on the Hub are editor-reviewed. New, original content will be assigned a citation and DOI.
Please submit to the Hub if you:
- Have stand-alone alternative materials from your community science work.
- Have content that complements a peer-reviewed journal article.
- Want to share materials that can help scientists, researchers and practitioners become better boundary-spanners.
Aims for Community Science, the Journal
Representation in this fast-growing field: An article in Community Science clearly announces the authors are serious about working within this space and have the lived experience and/or expertise to conduct this partnership and boundary-spanning work.
Expand the practice, and practitioners, of science: Community Science explicitly includes and elevates community voice throughout the article, allowing authors to present their work and highlight the people with whom they are collaborating.
Increase your readership: Community Science articles span a wide array of scholarly disciplines, garnering a readership from geoscience to biodiversity conservation to public health.
If the audience for your work is primarily researchers and academics, and/or if peer-reviewed publication is an important benefit to your career, please submit to Community Science.
Criteria to Publish in Community Science or the Community Science Exchange's Hub
These criteria apply to both Community Science and the Hub. "Yes" to all questions is required for inclusion in either:
- Is the community defined by geography (i.e., place-based), culture, livelihood, or lived experience?
- Does the work relate to a priority, challenge or issue within the community?
- Are there, or could there be, community outcomes from the work?
- Was the work done in equitable collaboration with community members, led or co-led by community members, or conducted at the request of a community?
- Are community members co-authors, or have community leaders indicated their approval for sharing the work and their acknowledgment of their involvement?
- Is the work respectful and inclusive of community knowledge and values?
- Does the work demonstrate respect for other ways of knowing and/or forms of decision-making?
About Us
The Community Science Exchange is a platform led by a coalition of partner societies, launched for elevating, sharing, and expanding the reach of science performed by, for, and with communities.
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