Citizen science values include increasing natural resource management, enabling large-scale research, promoting education and scientific literacy, addressing environmental injustice, mitigating climate change, and more. Project leaders often work toward multiple outcomes at once and must prioritize their focus. Prioritization is complicated given the competing interests of scientists, volunteers, funders, and others. According to role conflict theory, this negatively affects the ability of project leaders to carry out their jobs. We conducted a phenomenological study with project leaders (n = 65) to understand perceptions as they relate to diverse goals and interests. Project leaders who described misalignment between their own goals and what they perceived to be their organization’s goals more frequently reported challenges related to balancing scientists’ and volunteers’ interests, convincing colleagues to trust data, and being part-time employees. Given these results, we describe important implications for how organizations engaging in citizen science can address these challenges and better achieve goals.

Citizen science values include increasing natural resource management, enabling large-scale research, promoting education and scientific literacy, addressing environmental injustice, mitigating climate change, and more. Project leaders often work toward multiple outcomes at once and must prioritize their focus. Prioritization is complicated given the competing interests of scientists, volunteers, funders, and others. According to role conflict theory, this negatively affects the ability of project leaders to carry out their jobs. We conducted a phenomenological study with project leaders (n = 65) to understand perceptions as they relate to diverse goals and interests. Project leaders who described misalignment between their own goals and what they perceived to be their organization’s goals more frequently reported challenges related to balancing scientists’ and volunteers’ interests, convincing colleagues to trust data, and being part-time employees. Given these results, we describe important implications for how organizations engaging in citizen science can address these challenges and better achieve goals.

An entry from the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, the world’s repository for inorganic crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the joint CCDC and FIZ Karlsruhe Access Structures service and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.