GESIS Publications

Publishing research means issuing the scientific community’s latest results and insights for discussion. Our researchers not only publish in reputable journals and for well-known publishing houses, but GESIS also publishes independent journals and a series of user-oriented publications:

GESIS journals include the latest contributions in the areas of historical social research (Historical Social Research - HSR), survey methodology (Methods, Data and Analyses - MDA), and social reporting (Social Indicators Information Service - ISI).

GESIS publishes the bi-annual Data Report, a social report for Germany, in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office and Social Science Research Center Berlin.

The GESIS series also include various report series ranging from practice-oriented representation of survey research to conference proceedings and final reports on major research activities and doctoral dissertations:

GESIS method reports: key information for users from data and development activity
How-to: user-oriented presentation of social science methodology
GESIS working reports: institute research results – a preliminary stage to publication in reviewed journals
GESIS research reports: project completions and in-house publication of doctoral dissertations
GESIS convention reports: contributions at GESIS conventions in the area of social science and information technology

In addition to our research publications, we regularly publish service publications on a variety of different social science and socially relevant subjects such as

the social science specialist information service soFid
“Recherche Spezial” (Research Extras)
the special collections
“Social Sciences at a Glance”
publications of CEWS
and about subjects from Europe