Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications

• Published in: PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 7; p. e6762
• Main Authors: Tucker, Joseph D., Day, Suzanne, Tang, Weiming, Bayus, Barry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ. Ltd 12.04.2019; PeerJ, Inc; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Clinical trials; Collaboration; Collective intelligence; Community involvement; Crowdsourcing; Global Health; Health care; Health Policy; Hepatitis; Innovations; Intellectual property; Intelligence; Internal Medicine; Legal Issues; Literature review; Literature reviews; Medical innovations; Medical research; Medical tests; Medicine; Open source model; Problem solving; R&D; Research & development; Science and Medical Education; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social entrepreneurship; STD; Swarm intelligence; Technology application; Theory; United States > US; China; Crowdsourcing; Collective intelligence; Literature review; Theory; Open source model

Crowdsourcing shifts medical research from a closed environment to an open collaboration between the public and researchers. We define crowdsourcing as an approach to problem solving which involves an organization having a large group attempt to solve a problem or part of a problem, then sharing sol...