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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.
  • Mathiak, Brigitte, Janete Saldanha Bach, Yudong Zhang, and Peter Mutschke. 2025. "Improving the FAIRness of metadata through FAIR Signposting [Poster]." FAIRfest: Celebrating advancements of FAIR solutions in EOSC, 2025-02-20. https://fair-impact.eu/events/fair-impact-events/fairfest-celebrating-advancements-fair-solutions-eosc.
  • 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.
  • Schoch, David, Chung-hong Chan, Claudia Wagner, and Arnim Bleier. 2024. "Computational reproducibility in computational social science." EPJ Data Science 13 (2 December 2024): 75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00514-w.
  • Lietz, Haiko. 2024. "Kritikalität und Selbstähnlichkeit in der relationalen Soziologie Whites." 9. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Netzwerkforschung, Schader Stiftung, Darmstadt, 2024-10-29.
  • Eder, Christina. 2025 (Forthcoming). "The times they are changing? Support for green policy measures in Germany in times of uncertainty." Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 2025: .
  • Burger, Axel. 2025. "The role of cognitive dissonance and moral emotions for climate-relevant behavior." EMPRA-Kongress, University of Luxembourg, 2025-05-28.
  • Lietz, Haiko. 2025. "Going Breiger on White: Harrison C. White's identity in Social Network Science." Connections 45 (1): 49-58.
  • 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.
  • Fortin-Rittberger, Jessica, and Christina Eder. 2025. "Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany." Political Research Exchange (PRX) 7 (1): 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2508382.