To perform a quantitative meta-analysis of ZIF-8 synthesis, we first demonstrate the validity of the information extracted by comparing the performance of our text mining approach against a manually identified "ground truth" from a small number of papers sourced from the NIST database of emerging adsorbent materials. Using this database served two purposes: it was sufficiently small to provide a tractable number of articles for high-fidelity analysis, and each synthesis report was confirmed to contain ZIF-8 by the isotherm data provided. Overall, 44 publications describing ZIF-8 synthesis were identified, of which full information could be extracted for 42. The manuscripts were downloaded from their publisher, synthesis paragraphs manually identified, and synthesis information extracted both manually and using our software. In all cases, data reported within the paper and manually collated were considered as the ground truth.