Here’s my list of some scientific articles on OSM that I might read once retired:

• Schultz, M., Voss, J., Auer, M., Carter, S., & Zipf, A. (2017). Open land cover from OpenStreetMap and remote sensing. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 63, 206-213.

• Neis, P., & Zipf, A. (2012). Analyzing the contributor activity of a volunteered geographic information project—The case of OpenStreetMap. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 1(2), 146-165.

• Neis, P., & Zielstra, D. (2014). Recent developments and future trends in volunteered geographic information research: The case of OpenStreetMap. Future Internet, 6(1), 76-106.

• Senaratne, H., Mobasheri, A., Ali, A. L., Capineri, C., & Haklay, M. (2017). A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(1), 139-167.

• Barrington-Leigh, C., & Millard-Ball, A. (2017). The world’s user-generated road map is more than 80% complete. PloS one, 12(8), e0180698.

• Geographic Biases are ‘Born, not Made’: Exploring Contributors’ Spatiotemporal Behavior in OpenStreetMap, http://www.brenthecht.com/publications/group2018_spatialfootprints.pdf