Arazy, O., Kaplan-Mintz, K., Malkinson, D., & Nagar, Y. (2024). A local community on a global collective intelligence platform: A case study of individual preferences and collective bias in ecological citizen science. PLOS ONE, 19(8), e0308552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308552

Nagar, Y., Shaheen, W., & Arazy, O. (2024). Comparing Competing Approaches to Crowdsourced Classifications of Biological Species. In M. Themistocleous, N. Bakas, G. Kokosalakis, & M. Papadaki (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 536, pp. 249-259). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81325-2_18

Keran Kaplan Mintz, Ofer Arazy and Dan Malkinson. (2022). Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science. Environmental Education Research, 1-18.‏
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504622.2022.2120186?needAccess=true&journalCode=ceer20
With special thanks to  “Tatzpiteva”  community.

Ofer Arazy and Dan Malkinson. (2021). A Framework of Observer-Based Biases in Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring: Semi-Structuring Unstructured Biodiversity Monitoring Protocols, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fevo. 2021.693602

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqga0NWWOkTjbAE04p2kwaSyzyI-D4SP/view

Conferences presentation

Hirsch-Matsioulas, O., Nagar Y., & Arazy O. (2026) “Technology Bringing Us Closer, and Farther Away: Human-Nature-Technology Relationships in a Citizen Science Community”. The 2^nd Annual Conference of the Israel Citizen Science Center, Steinhardt Museum, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, February 2026.

Ofer, Y., Nagar, Y., Hertz, U. & Arazy, O. (2025) “Just Felt Like Real Life”: Antecedents of the Validity of a VR Simulation as a Tool for Studying Citizen-Scientists’ Reporting Decisions. (Poster. Honorable Mention). IsraHCI 2025, University of Haifa, Israel.

Arazy, O., Nagar, Y. (2025). Using Citizen Science Data to Answer Ecological Research Questions. (Invited talk). Israel Citizen Science Center Launch Conference, Steinhardt Museum, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, February 2025.

Nagar, I., Nagar, Y., and Shimshoni, I. (2025) An Efficient Strategy for Combining Algorithms, Crowds, and Experts, in Classification Tasks. (Poster). The Fourth Israeli Data Science and AI Initiative Conference (IDSAI), Jerusalem, Israel, January 6-7 2025

Nagar, Y. (2024). Optimizing Human-Machine Classification of Visual Biodiversity Media. (TREO Talk). 45th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ofer, Y., Nagar, Y., Arazy, O., Hertz, U. & Malkinson, D. (2024) Utilizing Virtual Reality to Explore Citizen Scientist Reporting Decisions and Collective Biases in Biodiversity Monitoring. (Poster). IsraHCI 2024, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nagar, Y., Shaheen, W. & Arazy, O. (2024). Comparing Competing Approaches to Crowdsourced Classifications of Biological Species. Proceedings of the 21st European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS)

Shaheen, Weaam, Nagar, Yiftach, Granat, Ayala, Davidson, Achiad, and Arazy, Ofer (2023). Developing a Crowd-Computing Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring. In IsraHCI ’23: The 10th Israeli conference on Human-Computer Interaction, July 4, 2023, Herzliya, Israel.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EswbsrU6KYCtcjMNbdfPpPT2nPi_Ldfj/view?usp=drive_link 

Shaheen, Weaam, Nagar, Yiftach, Granat, Ayala, Davidson, Achiad, and Arazy, Ofer (2023) A Social Computing Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring. The 17th annual Israel Association for Information Systems (ILAIS) conference 2023, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCXlRy9eRbimo6uZv9EvIQ-h5Nau3V00/view?usp=sharing

Shaheen, Weaam, Nagar, Yiftach, Lavi, Bar, Davidson, Achiad, and Arazy, Ofer (2023) Combining Human and Machine Intelligence for Biodiversity Monitoring. The 17th annual Israel Association for Information Systems (ILAIS) conference 2023, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j77aSu75CFa7afZGGWNlQ0wNjS_eLmNB/view?usp=sharing

Dan Malkinson (2022). Smart phones and stupid data. Is it possible to estimate wild mushrooms population with citizen science tools? Israel Wild Mushroom Conference. , Rahovot, Isreal.

Yuval Nov (2022) . A Novel Method for Using Citizen Science Data in Biodiversity Monitoring.
The 50th Annual Conference of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tomer Gueta, Ofer Arazy, Dan Malkinson Nirit Lavia-Alon, Ariel Shamir, Shlomo Priceblum, Naama Arkin, Alon Sepan and Tamar Dayan (2022). Public participation in biodiversity monitoring and research. The annual conference for ecology and environment. The 50th Annual Conference of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. , Tel Aviv, Israel