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

  • Claassen, Joshua, Timo Lenzner, Jan Karem Höhne, and Conrad Ziller. 2025 (Forthcoming). "A survey mode of the future? Investigating respondents’ willingness to participate in self-administered video-based web surveys." methods, data, analyses: .
  • Lipinsky, Anke, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira, and Vilana Pilinkaite Sotirovic. 2025 (Forthcoming). "Embracing Paradox Realities: Racially Minoritised Women and Gender‐Based Violence in Higher Education." Social Inclusion (14): Article 9825.
  • Lengerer, Andrea. 2025. Gleichgeschlechtliche Partnerschaften im Mikrozensus ab 2020. GESIS Papers 2025/03. Mannheim: GESIS. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/102110.
  • Schneider, Silke L., and Julian Urban. 2025 (Forthcoming). "A myriad of options: Validity and comparability of alternative education variables." Survey Methods: Insights from the Field: .
  • Ell, Theresia, and Lydia Repke. 2025. "Verbindungen, die zählen: Was persönliche Netzwerke sind und wie sie unser Leben beeinflussen – LoneCovid 1." GESIS Blog. doi: https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2025.96.