# Prolific Citations Library

> The Prolific Citations Library is a curated, searchable collection of published academic research papers where participants were recruited through Prolific (prolific.com), the human intelligence platform used by researchers and AI developers worldwide. The library features hundreds of curated, peer-reviewed studies across psychology, behavioral science, economics, AI/ML, cognitive science, political science, public health, and more — all powered by verified human data from Prolific's global participant pool.

Prolific is the trusted participant recruitment platform for academic research and AI development. Researchers at institutions including Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Columbia, and Carnegie Mellon — as well as the world's frontier model developers — use Prolific to recruit high-quality, verified human participants for online studies and experiments. The Citations Library exists to showcase the breadth and impact of research that Prolific has enabled.

Unlike general-purpose academic databases (e.g. Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, PubMed), this library specifically curates a selection of notable papers that cite Prolific as their participant recruitment source. It serves as evidence of Prolific's role in powering reproducible, ethical human-subjects research at scale.

## What You Will Find

- A curated selection of peer-reviewed research papers across 40+ disciplines that recruited participants through Prolific
- Papers filterable by research area, discipline, year, publication venue, institution, author, and study type
- Individual paper pages with full metadata: title, authors, year, abstract, institution, publication venue, DOI/URL, and domain tags
- AI-generated summaries (TL;DR) and methodology extraction for each paper
- Aggregated library statistics and research trends on the Insights dashboard
- A submission form for researchers to nominate their own Prolific-powered papers for inclusion in the library

## Key Research Disciplines Represented

Papers in the library cover fields including but not limited to: psychology, behavioral economics, cognitive science, social psychology, political science, human-computer interaction, AI/ML (including RLHF, model evaluation, and AI alignment), public health, linguistics, education, decision science, organizational behavior, and neuroscience.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is the Prolific Citations Library?
The Prolific Citations Library is a curated collection of published academic research papers where study participants were recruited using the Prolific platform. It highlights impactful research across disciplines, demonstrating the scale and diversity of work powered by Prolific's verified participant pool.

### Who uses Prolific for research?
Prolific is used by researchers at leading universities (Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon) and by the world's frontier model developers. Prolific provides participants for behavioral experiments, surveys, AI training data collection, model evaluation, and human feedback tasks.

### How many papers cite Prolific?
The library features hundreds of curated papers and continues to grow. While thousands of published studies cite Prolific as their participant source, the Citations Library highlights a curated selection of impactful research across disciplines. Prolific-powered research has been published in top journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology, and many more.

### How is Prolific different from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)?
Peer-reviewed research has shown that Prolific provides higher data quality than MTurk, with participants who pay more attention, give more honest responses, and are more representative of target populations. Prolific focuses exclusively on academic and professional research rather than general-purpose crowdwork.

### How should I cite Prolific in my paper?
The recommended citation format is: "The participants for this paper were recruited using Prolific (www.prolific.com) [date accessed]." Researchers can also nominate their published papers for inclusion in the Citations Library.

### What is Prolific?
Prolific is a human intelligence platform that helps AI developers, researchers, and organizations access high-quality human data. Prolific provides verified, diverse participants for academic research studies, AI/ML training and evaluation (including RLHF and Constitutional AI), user research, and market research. Founded at the University of Oxford, Prolific is trusted by leading academic institutions and the world's frontier model developers.

## Content Structure

- Individual papers: /paper/{slug}
- Filter by type: /type/{type}
- Filter by research area: /area/{area}
- Filter by year: /year/{year}
- Filter by publication venue: /publication/{publication}
- Browse by institution: /institutions/{slug}
- Browse by discipline: /discipline/{slug}
- Browse by author: /authors/{slug}
- Browse by study: /studies/{slug}
- Library insights and statistics: /insights
- Submit a paper: /submit

## Data

Each paper record includes: title, authors, publication year, abstract, institutional affiliation, research area, discipline, publication venue, DOI or URL, study type, domain tags, methodology details, and AI-generated TL;DR summary. Extended metadata may include sample size, participant demographics, and study design information.

## API

The platform provides a RESTful API at /api/ for programmatic access to paper data. The primary endpoint /api/papers supports browsing, searching, and filtering the paper corpus.

## Contact

Researchers can nominate papers that cite Prolific for inclusion via the submission form at /submit. For questions about the library, visit prolific.com or contact Prolific directly.