Citation policy
MetaLab encourages researchers to use data available on its website. For example, you can cite meta-analytic results, or download datasets and conduct custom analyses. Before using MetaLab data in your publication, please cite the dataset(s) you use (each dataset’s citation appears on its page) and the MetaLab platform papers below.
Papers about MetaLab
Bergmann, C., Tsuji, S., Piccinini, P.E., Lewis, M.L., Braginsky, M., Frank, M.C., & Cristia, A. (2018). Promoting replicability in developmental research through meta-analyses: Insights from language acquisition research. Child Development, 89, 1996-2009. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13079 [Repository]
Cao, A., Lewis, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., & Frank, M.C. (2025). Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis. Developmental Science, 28(4), e70028. DOI: 10.1111/desc.70028 [Repository]
Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., & Cristia, A. (2014). Community-augmented meta-analyses: Toward cumulative data assessment. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(6), 661-665. DOI: 10.1177/1745691614552498
Papers that use MetaLab data
Bergmann, C., Tsuji, S., & Cristia, A. (2017). Top-down versus bottom-up theories of phonological acquisition: A big data approach. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp. 2013–2016. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1443
Lewis, M. L., Braginsky, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Piccinini, P. E., Cristia, A., & Frank, M. C. (2017). A quantitative synthesis of early language acquisition using meta-analysis. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HTSJM [Preprint]
Mathur, M. B., & VanderWeele, T. J. (2020). Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers. Research Synthesis Methods. DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1464
Mathur, M. B., & VanderWeele, T. J. (2020). Sensitivity analysis for publication bias in meta‐analyses. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied Statistics, 69(5), 1091. DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12440
Tsuji, S. & Cristia, A. (2017). Which acoustic and phonological factors shape infants’ vowel discrimination? Exploiting natural variation in InPhonDB. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp. 2108-2112. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1468
Tsuji, S., Cristia, A., Frank, M. C., & Bergmann, C. (2020). Addressing publication bias in meta-analysis. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228, 50-61. DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000393