The many faces of GESIS
Vita
I am a PhD student in the Computational Social Science department since October 2022. My work focusses on web tracking data and my thesis topic is "Quality of Social Network Data". I was awarded the alumni award at the University of Heidelberg for my Master's in Sociology in 2022.I was GESIS PhD Representative from May 2023 to September 2025.
Service
I am a part of the service GESIS WebTracking.Research
My main research interest is in the area of social network analysis (SNA).Publications
Journal article
Ulloa, Roberto, Frank Mangold, Felix Schmidt, Judith Gilsbach, and Sebastian Stier. 2025. "Beyond time delays: how web scraping distorts measures of online news consumption." Communication Methods and Measures online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2482538.
Gilsbach, Judith, and Johannes Stauder. 2025. "Digital communication and tie formation amongst freshmen students during and after the pandemic." Social Networks 81 (May 2025): 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.12.002.
Chapter in an edited book
Borisova, Ekaterina, Raia Abu Ahmad, Georg Rehm, Ricardo Usbeck, Jennifer D’Souza, Markus Stocker, Sören Auer, Judith Gilsbach, Anastasia Wolschewski, Johannes Keller, Daniel Schneider, Thomas Neumuth, and Sonja Schimmler. 2023. "NFDI4DS Transfer and Application." In INFORMATIK 2023. Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten. 26. – 29. September 2023, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, edited by Maike Klein, Daniel Krupka, Cornelia Winter, and Volker Wohlgemuth, Series of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) 337, 925-929. Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH.
Working and discussion paper
Hollerbach, Kerstin, Barbara Felderer, Judith Gilsbach, Boris Heizmann, Guido Koch, Sebastian Netscher, Cornelia Neuert, Klaus Pforr, Joss Roßmann, Matthias Sand, and Christof Wolf. 2024. Befragung der Zielgruppen von GESIS 2023. GESIS Papers 2024/08. Mannheim: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.97157.
Presentation at a conference
Gilsbach, Judith. 2025. "Ensuring Data Quality and Open Science Practices in the (Computational) Social Sciences: A Survey of Researchers: Poster presentation." IC2S2 2025, Norrköping, Campus Norrköping - Linköping University, Norrköping, 2025-07-22.
Gilsbach, Judith. 2025. "Sampling Error in Social Networks." Sunbelt Conference 2025, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 2025-06-27.
Gilsbach, Judith. 2024. "A Social Network Total Error Framework." 9. DGNet-Kongress, Schader Stiftung, Darmstadt, 2024-10-28.
Weiß, Bernd, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Anna Hebel, Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Judith Gilsbach, and Laura Gress. 2024. "Comparing Probability- and Nonprobability-based Recruitment for Survey and Digital Behavioral Data Collections: The new GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample." MethodsNET Conference, Université catholique de Louvain, 2024-11-01.
Gilsbach, Judith, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Bernd Weiß. 2024. "Quality improvement or disruption of participant behavior?" WEB DATA OPP, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2024-03-18.
Gilsbach, Judith, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Bernd Weiß. 2024. "The influence of conditional and unconditional incentives on the willingness to participate in web tracking studies." GOR 24: General Online Research Conference, 2024-02-22.
Weiß, Bernd, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Anna Hebel, Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Judith Gilsbach, and Laura Latocha. 2023. "Poster on "The new GESIS Panel.plus: Survey data linked with digital behavioral data"." 15. Workshop der Panelsurveys im deutschsprachigen Raum, 2023-03-30.
Gilsbach, Judith, and Johannes Stauder. 2023. "The evolution of freshmen networks during and after lockdown: comparing two cohorts: Poster-Presentation." NetSci 2023, Universität Wien, Wien, 2023-07-12.
Gilsbach, Judith. 2023. "The Impact of Multiple Imputation Techniques for Longitudinal Social Network Data: How is the analysis result influenced by the imputation technique and the analysis method?" Poster Presentation at ATLASS, Universität Bielefeld, 2023-03-15.
Gilsbach, Judith, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Bernd Weiß. 2023. "The influence of pre- and post-paid incentives on the willingness to participate in web tracking studies." Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), 2023-07-17.
Presentation not at a conference
Weiß, Bernd, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Anna Hebel, Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Judith Gilsbach, and Laura Gress. 2024. "Comparing Probability- and Nonprobability-based Recruitment Approaches for Survey and Digital Behavioral Data Collections: Preliminary Analyses Among Different Selection Steps." 16. Workshop der Panelsurveys im deutschsprachigen Raum, 2024-04-29.
Gilsbach, Judith, Joachim G. Piepenburg, Frank Mangold, Bernd Weiß, and Sebastian Stier. 2024. "Quality Improvement or Disruption of Participant Behavior?" WEB DATA OPP, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2024-03-18.
Other
Gilsbach, Judith, and Daniel Wagner. 2023. "Introduction to R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.