GESIS Blog – Growing Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Datenspenden als Erhebungsmethode: Neue Wege zu digitalen Verhaltensdaten

Digitale Verhaltensdaten, sogenannte Digital Behavioral Data, sind zu einem zentralen Bestandteil sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Lange Zeit konnten Forschende solche Daten über Programmierschnittstellen, die sogenannten APIs, kommerzieller Online-Plattformen erheben. Doch da viele Plattformen ihren Datenzugang in den letzten Jahren deutlich eingeschränkt haben, werden alternative Erhebungsmethoden zunehmend wichtig. Eine dieser neuen Strategien …

27/03/2026 Inke Ammermann

From Preprint to Published: The Secret Life of Scientific Manuscripts

What really happens to research preprints after they hit the digital world? At GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, a dedicated team has documented the journey of over 145,000 bioRxiv preprints, revealing surprising twists and the evolving relationship between speedy online sharing and formal journal publication. The newly …

11/03/2026 Fidan Badalova

Social Life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK

The COVID-19 pandemic officially ended almost three years ago. Let us revisit that period and examine how it changed (or not) our lives, institutions, and attitudes. Die COVID-19-Pandemie endete offiziell vor fast drei Jahren. Lassen Sie uns auf diese Zeit zurückblicken und untersuchen, wie sie unser Leben, unsere Institutionen und …

21/01/2026 Elias Naumann (PhD)

Digital Technologies and Sampling. Comparing Estimates From Different Recruitment – Approaches Within the GESIS Panel.dbd.

Using a dataset of the GESIS Panel.dbd from 2023, this article examines AI use and attitudes in Germany. Almost half of the respondents had tried ChatGPT while one in five had not heard of it. Both positive and negative attitudes toward AI were common. Most agreement was found on the …

12/01/2026 Julius Kleinbub

The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues – Part 1: Survey Data

Chances are, you’ve run into this before. Regression results that change depending on how you handle missing values in your dependent variable. A long item battery where many respondents select the same response option all the way through. A set of survey items that do not seem to measure the …

22/12/2025 Fabienne Kraemer