The following articles (arranged chronologically) have been written about The Madsci Network or have used our archives to assist with understanding how people learn science or use online materials to learn.

• Hauder, Matheus, Gil, Yolanda K, Sethi, Ricky J., Liu, Yan and Jo, Hyunjoon, Making Data Analysis Expertise Broadly Accessible through Workflows, SC WORKS, 2011.
• Sethi, Ricky J., and Gil, Yolanda K., A Social Collaboration Argumentation System for Generating Multi-Faceted Answers in Question and Answer Communities, AAAI CMNA, 2011.
• Sethi, Ricky J. and Bry, Lynn, The Madsci Network, Technical Report, Madsci Network Research, 2011.
• Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Sethi, Ricky J., Bry, Lynn, and Yarden, Anat, Identifying Students' Interests in Biology Using a Decade of Self-Generated Questions, EJMSTE, 2010.
• Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Sethi, Ricky J., Bry, Lynn, and Yarden, Anat, Asking scientists: A decade of questions analyzed by age, gender, and country, Science Education, 2009.
• Harper, F. Maxwell, Raban, Daphne, Rafaeli, Sheizaf, and Konstan, Joseph A., Predictors of answer quality in online Q&A sites, ACM SIGCHI, 2008.
• Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Sethi, Ricky J., Bry, Lynn, and Yarden, Anat, Web-based Bypass of Traditional Gender Iniquities in Science Education, ESERA, 2007
• Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Sethi, Ricky J., Bry, Lynn, and Yarden, Anat, Using questions sent to an Ask-A-Scientist Site to identify children's interests in science, Science Education, 2006.
• Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Sethi, Ricky J., Bry, Lynn, and Yarden, Anat, Students spontaneous and school-related interests in science and technology, ESERA, 2005
• Pomerantz, J., A Conceptual Framework and Open Research Questions for Chat-based Reference Service, JASIST, 56(12), 1288-1302, 2005.
• Liu, Xiaoyong, Croft, Bruce, Oh, Paul and Hart, David, Automatic recognition of reading levels from user queries, SIGIR, 2004.
• Bry, Lynn, Simple and sophisticated methods for processing large volumes of question and answer information through the World Wide Web. Lankes, R. D.; Collins, J. W., and Kasowitz, A. S., Eds. Digital reference service in the new millennium. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers; 2000; pp. 111-123.
• Bry, Lynn, Developing and implementing an Ask-An-Expert Service on the World Wide Web, in How to Build and Maintain Digital Reference Services, eds. R. David Lankes and Abby S. Kasowitz, ERIC Publications, 1998.