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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.
  • Backes, Tobias, Anastasiia Iurshina, Muhammad Ahsan Shahid, and Philipp Mayr. 2024. "Comparing free reference extraction pipelines." International Journal on Digital Libraries 25 (4): 841–853. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-024-00404-6. https://zenodo.org/records/11072332.
  • Pforr, Klaus. 2024. "There goes the "Auswahlbezirk": Estimation of "White-Flight"-Effects using the German Microcensus." Research Colloquium "Comparative Stratification Research" 2024, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 2024-06-18.
  • Sen, Indira, Mareike Wieland, Katrin Weller, and Martin Gerlach. 2024. "Do People Perceive Differences in the Readability of Wikipedia Articles?" 11th Annual Wiki Workshop, Wikimedia Foundation, 2024-06-20.
  • Wieland, Mareike. 2024. "Mit Absicht oberflächlich? Situative Varianz und Determinanten automatisierter Interaktionen mit Social Media-Feeds." Besser jetzt als gleich? Rezeption und Wirkung in Nutzungssituationen: Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) , Universität Fribourg (CH), Nürnberg, 2024-01-26.
  • Burger, Axel, Joscha Bäuerle, and Marc Debus. 2024. "Ist der Weg zur Wahlkreiskandidatur für manche Personen steiniger als für andere? – Erkenntnisse aus der GLES Nominierungsstudie 2021." GESIS Blog: Growing Knowledge in the Social Sciences, 2024-06-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2024.81.