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
Münch, Felix Victor. 2026. "From Reputation Accumulation to Resonance Mining: Shifting Social Media Influence Mechanics in Times of Heteronomous Algorithmic Curation." The Impact of Social Media on Democracy: Final conference of the EU project "Social Media for Democracy (SoMe4Dem) - Understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship" , Harnack-Haus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2026-01-15. https://some4dem.eu/activities/event-series/the-impact-of-social-media-on-democracy.
Bleier, Arnim, and Felix Victor Münch. 2025. "Demo of the GESIS Methods Hub." 2025 NFDI4DS Conference, Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS, Berlin, 2025-11-25.
Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Tik-Talk-Tok - Messung von Resonanzen zwischen politischen Fernseh-Talkshows und TikTok-Kanälen öffentlicher Sprecher während der Bundestagswahl 2025." Informationsräume im Umbruch: Desinformation, politische Influencer und mediale Strategien in Krisenzeiten, Zentrum Informationsarbeit Bundeswehr, Berlin, 2025-11-27.
Twyman, Marlon, Sarah Rajtmajer, Vivek Kumar Singh, Fred Morstatter, Haiming Liu, Jun Sun, Katherine Ognyanova, and Matthew S. Weber, ed. 2025. Websci '25: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3717867.
Otto, Wolfgang, Lu Gan, Sharmila Upadhyaya, Saurav Karmakar, and Stefan Dietze. 2026 (Forthcoming). "GSAP-ERE: Fine-Grained Scholarly Entity and Relation Extraction Focused on Machine Learning." In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligance (AAAI). Washington DC: AAAI Press.
Müller, Nora, Theresa Nutz, Katrin Firl, and Lara Guse. 2025. The ContraIndex: A multidimensional measure of contraceptive returns net of labor. OSF Preprints. doi: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ngdez_v4.
Schredl, Claudia, Anke Lipinsky, and Anne Laure Humbert. 2025. "You can’t see what you don’t measure! A scoping review of measurements of gender-based violence, its determinants and consequences in academia." PLoS ONE 20 (2): 1-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317872.
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.
Maier, Jürgen, Corinna Oschatz, Sebastian Stier, Mona Dian, and Marius Sältzer. 2025. "Beyond rationality: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning." European Political Science Review 17 (3): 378-396. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773925000025.
Stier, Sebastian, Pascal Siegers, and Johannes Breuer. 2025. "Radical right populism and the media: Evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany." European Sociological Review 41 (4): 591–606. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae051.
