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. doi: https://doi.org/10.21307/connections-2019.061.
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 19 (3): 179–200. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2482538.
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.
Stier, Sebastian, Sebastian A. Popa, Yannis Theocharis, and Brian Boyle. 2026. "Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections." Party Politics 32 (1): 115-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688251317855.
Lipinsky, Anke. 2026. "Geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt in der Wissenschaft: Strukturen, Dynamiken, Konsequenzen." https://www.leuphana.de/einrichtungen/gleichstellung/aktuell/termine/ansicht/2026/03/09/geschlechtsbezogene-gewalt-in-der-wissenschaft-strukturen-dynamiken-konsequenzen.html , Leuphana Universität, 2026-03-09.
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.
Asensio Manjon, Marc, Anna De Castellarnau, Barbara Felderer, Carlos Poses, Lydia Repke, Melanie Revilla, Willem E. Saris, Hannah Schwarz, and Wiebke Weber. 2026. SQP 3.0 data (Version 1.0.0). doi: https://doi.org/10.7802/2968.
Wiltshire, Deborah, Anne van der Kant, Bolton Sharon, Maria Alexandra Rujano, Christian Ohmann, Eugenio Gonzalo Jimenez, Anne-Marie Tuikka, Marcos Casada Barbero, Beate Lichtwardt, and Sharon Bolton. 2025. EOSC-ENTRUST D7.1 Driver validation report of Year 1 EOSC-ENTRUST architectural blueprint including gap analysis. zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14988868.
