A citation analysis of (f)MRI papers that cited Lieberman and Cunningham (2009) to justify their statistical threshold.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In current neuroimaging studies, the mainstream practice is to report results corrected for multiple comparisons to control for false positives. In 2009, Lieberman and Cunningham published a highly cited report that promotes the use of uncorrected statistical thresholds to balance Types I and II error rates. This paper aims to review recent studies that cited this report, investigating whether the citations were to justify the use of uncorrected statistical thresholds, and if their uncorrected thresholds adhered to the recommended defaults.

Methods

The Web of Science Core Collection online database was queried to identify original articles published during 2019-2022 that cited the report.

Results

It was found that the majority of the citing papers (152/22

SUBMITTER: Yeung AWK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11371206 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature