Research

GESIS - for a research-based infrastructure

GESIS is a research-based infrastructure institution for the social sciences and conducts its own continuous and interdisciplinary research in four major research areas. The results of our research serve both to gain scientific knowledge and to sustainably improve our offerings for the social sciences.

For GESIS, the quality of data takes center stage. GESIS strives to provide high-quality research data as well as methods and tools that enable users to assess for themselves how high the quality of research data is.

With our research work in the areas of Survey Methodology, Computational Methods, Research Data Management and Substantive Research, we are constantly expanding and optimizing our portfolio of services, with which we support researchers who work with quantitative data on social science issues and make their own contributions to fundamental substantive issues.

Research work at GESIS

  • Lietz, Haiko. 2025. "Going Breiger on White: Harrison C. White's identity in Social Network Science." Connections 45 (1): 49-58.
  • Bensmann, Felix, and Benjamin Zapilko. 2023. ScienceLinker - Python Package. https://pypi.org/project/sciencelinker/.
  • Lietz, Haiko. 2024. "Practical computational analytical sociology." 16th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, 2024-05-30.
  • Dahou, Abdelhalim Hafedh, and Brigitte Mathiak. 2025. "Automatic Categorization of Software Repository Domains with Minimal Resources." In Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Book series. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87569-4_2.
  • Ferrara, Antonio, Francesco Bonchi, Francesco Fabbri, Fariba Karimi, and Claudia Wagner. 2024. "Bias-aware ranking from pairwise comparisons." Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 38 (4): 2062-2086. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-024-01024-z.
  • Repke, Lydia. 2025. "Wie Europa sich die Birne wegschießt: Und woher wir das wissen." Morgen Abend Festival. Science Slam zum Thema Zusammenhalt "Von unerwarteten Anziehungskräften, instabilen Verbindungen und überraschenden Lösungen in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft", Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main, 2025-07-03. https://www.boell-hessen.de/morgen-abend-festival/.
  • Burger, Axel. 2025. "Mixed feelings during election campaigns." 48th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2025-07-06.
  • Burger, Axel, Julia Weiß, and Axel Babst. 2025. "Investigating the links of political emotions with information search and avoidance using intensive longitudinal data." 48th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2025-07-04.
  • Eder, Christina. 2025. "The times they are changing? Support for green policy measures in Germany in times of uncertainty." Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft online first: 1-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-025-00421-0.
  • Burger, Axel. 2025. "The role of cognitive dissonance and moral emotions for climate-relevant behavior." EMPRA-Kongress, University of Luxembourg, 2025-05-28.