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
Kessling, Philipp, and Felix Victor Münch. 2026. "Riding the Spider: A Network-Sampling Framework for Multi-Platform Data Collections." M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 1 (74): 52-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2026-1-52.
Darius, Philipp, Johannes Breuer, Simon Kruschinski, Felicia Loecherbach, Jasmin Riedl, and Sebastian Stier. 2026. "Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act." Internet Policy Review 1 (15): 1-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.14763/2026.1.2080.
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.
Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Deny, Doubt, Delay, Attack: A Multi-Platform Investigation of the Dissemination of Climate Mis- and Disinformation in German Social Media." Joint Research Centre DISINFO Workshop, European Commission, Brussels, 2025-09-24.
Schredl, Claudia, and Anke Lipinsky. 2025. "From denial to window dressing? Resistance to gender equality plans at technical universities and the role of formalized implementation structures." Studies in Higher Education online first: 1-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2544231.
Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle, Christina Eder, and Manuela Liem. 2026. "Trade-off or co-evolution? Support for climate change policy in times of crises." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 226 (116186): 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.116186.
Münch, Felix Victor. 2025. "Computational Methods - Network Analysis and Visualisation for Computational Social Science with Python and Gephi [Master-Seminar]." Universität Bremen. Sommersemester 2025: 2 SWS.
