2025

Hölzl, Johanna ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Sajons, Christoph (2025) The (mis)use of Google Trends data in the social sciences - A systematic review, critique, and recommendations. Social Science Research Amsterdam ; Orlando, FL 126 Article 103099 1-22 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

2024

Cernat, Alexandru ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Pankowska, Paulina K. (2024) Estimating measurement quality in digital trace data and surveys using the MultiTrait MultiMethod model. Social Science Computer Review : SSCORE Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] tba tba 1-17 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Pankowska, Paulina K. ; Cernat, Alexandru ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 (2024) Do you have two minutes to talk about your data? Willingness to participate and nonparticipation bias in Facebook data donation. Field Methods Thousand Oaks, CA 36 4 279-293 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Bucher, Hannah (2024) (Non)probability sampling in survey reseach. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Landesvatter, Camille (2024) Methods for the classification of data from open-ended questions in surveys. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Schonlau, Matthias ; Schröder, Jette ORCID: 0000-0002-1000-5855 (2024) To share or not to share – understanding individuals’ willingness to share biomarkers, sensor data, and medical records. Information, Communication & Society : ICS London 1-19 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Kobiella, Charlotte ; Flores López, Yarhy Said ; Waltenberger, Franz ; Draxler, Fiona ; Schmidt, Albrecht "If the machine is as good as me, then what use am I?" – How the use of ChatGPT changes young professionals' perception of productivity and accomplishment. Mueller, Florian Floyd ; Kyburz, Penny ; Williamson, Julie R. ; Sas, Corina ; Wilson, Max L. ; Toups Dugas, Phoebe ; Shklovski, Irina Article No.: 1018 1-16 In: CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2024) New York, NY CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Honolulu, HI) [Konferenzveröffentlichung]

Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 How are public preferences relevant to the ethical use of AI? Theoretical considerations and empirical findings. (2024) 15. Wissenschaftliche Tagung des ADM, der ASI und des Statistischen Bundesamtes, "Datenerhebung, Datenqualität und Datenethik in Zeiten von künstlicher Intelligenz" (Wiesbaden, Germany) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Szafran, Daria ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 (2024) “The human must remain the central focus”: Subjective fairness perceptions in automated decision-making. Minds and Machines Dordrecht [u.a.] 34 Article Number: 24 1-37 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 (2024) Challenges of data-driven technologies for social inequality and privacy: empirical research on context and public perceptions. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Areal, João ORCID: 0000-0001-6009-2785 (2024) Beyond disdain: Measurement and consequences of negative partisanship as a social identity. Electoral Studies Amsterdam [u.a.] 90 Article 102831 1-13 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Mackeben, Jan (2024) Introducing web in a telephone employee survey: a mode design experiment. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 (2024) Attitudes on data use for public benefit: investigating context-specific differences across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom with a longitudinal survey experiment. Social Media + Society : SM + S Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] 10 4 1-18 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Areal, João ORCID: 0000-0001-6009-2785 ; Harteveld, Eelco ORCID: 0000-0003-4233-6592 (2024) Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters. Electoral Studies Amsterdam [u.a.] 90 Article 102814 1-8 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Beuthner, Christoph ; Weiß, Bernd ORCID: 0000-0002-1176-8408 ; Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Schröder, Jette ORCID: 0000-0002-1000-5855 (2024) Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives. International Journal of Social Research Methodology : IJSRM London [u.a.] 27 4 375-388 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Schröder, Jette ORCID: 0000-0002-1000-5855 ; Kapidzic, Sanja ; Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Menold, Natalja ORCID: 0000-0003-1106-474X ; Beuthner, Christoph (2024) Linking survey and Facebook data: mechanisms of consent and linkage. International Journal of Social Research Methodology : IJSRM London [u.a.] tba tba 1-13 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Schwanhäuser, Silvia (2024) Detecting interviewer falsification in surveys – a guide for improving quality controls. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Gaul, Johannes ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Rostam-Afschar, Davud ORCID: 0000-0002-9358-998X ; Simon, Thomas (2024) Invitation messages for business surveys: A multi-armed bandit experiment. TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series Mannheim 170 [Arbeitspapier]

Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Breuer, Johannes ; Felderer, Barbara ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Stammann, Patrick ; Daikeler, Jessica ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Weiß, Bernd ORCID: 0000-0002-1176-8408 (2024) Asking for traces: A vignette study on acceptability norms and personal willingness to donate digital trace data. Social Science Computer Review : SSCORE Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] tba tba 1-26 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Rodewald, Frieder ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Szafran, Daria ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 Mesuring privacy behavior with donated data. (2024) Data Donation Symposium 2024 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

2023

Trappmann, Mark ; Haas, Georg-Christoph ; Malich, Sonja ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bähr, Sebastian ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 ; Schwarz, Stefan (2023) Augmenting survey data with digital trace data: Is there a threat to panel retention? Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology : JSSAM Oxford 11 3 541-552 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Cernat, Alexandru (2023) Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior. Internet Research Bingley 33 3 1031-1052 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Wenz, Alexander ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 (2023) The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone use based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities. Mobile Media & Communication London [u.a.] 11 3 459-483 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Wenz, Alexander ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 (2023) Increasing the acceptance of smartphone-based data collection. Public Opinion Quarterly : POQ Oxford 87 2 357-388 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 Humans vs. Machines: Who is Perceived to Decide Fairer? An Experiment about Citizens’ Attitudes. (2023) Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2023 (München, Germany) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Minderop, Isabella Luise (2023) Participation time in self-administered panel surveys: measurements and consequences. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Mautner, Hannah ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 (2023) The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling. Data & Policy Cambridge 5 Article e32 1-19 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Struminskaya, Bella ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 (2023) Mobile devices and the collection of social research data. Skopek, Jan Research handbook on digital sociology Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA 101-114 [Buchkapitel]

Page, Elina T. ; Antoun, Christopher ; Gonzalez, Jeffrey ; Kantor, Linda ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Miller, Lauren ; Wenz, Alexander (2023) Editorial: Recent advances in survey methods for collecting food data. Survey Methods : Insights from the Field Lausanne 2023 special issue: Food acquisition research and methods 1-8 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Behrens, Lion (2023) Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities – three essays on supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches and the attitudinal consequences of exposing cheating. Mannheim [Dissertation]

Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Schonlau, Matthias ; Schröder, Jette ORCID: 0000-0002-1000-5855 ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 To share or not to share -- Using open-ended survey questions to understand data sharing decisions. (2023) ESRA 2023 Conference, European Survey Research Association Conference (Milano, Italy) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Behrmann, Julia Al ; Marshall, Emily A. ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 Family size preferences in the face of work and family constraints. (2023) 118th American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Breuer, Johannes ; Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Daikeler, Jessica ; Felderer, Barbara ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Stammann, Patrick ; Weiß, Bernd ORCID: 0000-0002-1176-8408 What can we ask for and how should we ask? An experimental vignette study on request and respondent characteristics affecting the acceptability of and willingness to agree to digital trace data donation. (2023) Data Donation Symposium 2023 (Zürich, Switzerland) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Cernat, Alexandru ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Pankowska, Paulina K. Estimating measurement quality in digital trace data and surveys using the MultiTrait MultiMethod model. (2023) ESRA 2023 Conference, European Survey Research Association Conference (Milano, Italy) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Guyer, Heidi ; Moakley, Margaret ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Struminskaya, Bella Provide or bring your own wearable device? An assessment of compliance, adherence, and representation in a national study. (2023) BigSurv23 (Big Data Meets Survey Science) (Quito, Ecuador) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Pankowska, Paulina K. ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Cernat, Alexandru Collect information about Facebook usage via data donation: Willingness, participation, and bias. (2023) Data Donation Symposium 2023 (Zürich, Switzerland) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Pankowska, Paulina K. ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Cernat, Alexandru Do you have two minutes to talk about your data? Using data donation to collect Facebook data. (2023) 78th Annual AAPOR Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Philadelphia, PA) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Mehltretter, Johanna ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Sajons, Christoph Sustainable trend or trending mayfly? A systematic literature review and guidelines on using Google trends data for social science research. (2023) ESRA 2023 Conference, European Survey Research Association Conference (Milano, Italy) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Mehltretter, Johanna ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Sajons, Christoph What do racists google? A systematic approach to selecting and validating Google trends data using the example of xenophobic attitudes. (2023) 25th General Online Research Conference 2023 (GOR 23) (Kassel, Germany) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Mehltretter, Johanna ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Sajons, Christoph What do racists google? Systematic approach to selecting and validating Google trends data using the example of xenophobic attitudes. (2023) 78th Annual AAPOR Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Philadelphia, PA) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Metz, Ashley ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 Sensor- and smartphone-based data collection in organization studies and management. (2023) 39th EGOS Colloquium - Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination (Cagliari, Italy) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Pankowska, Paulina K. ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Cernat, Alexandru Measuring Facebook use: The accuracy of self-reported data vs. digital trace data. (2023) 25th General Online Research Conference 2023 (GOR 23) (Kassel, Germany) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Silber, Henning ORCID: 0000-0002-3568-3257 ; Breuer, Johannes ; Daikeler, Jessica ; Felderer, Barbara ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Weiß, Bernd ORCID: 0000-0002-1176-8408 Sharing digital traces: Experimental evidence on the influence of the data type, the recipient, and a safe transmission. (2023) ESRA 2023 Conference, European Survey Research Association Conference (Milano, Italy) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Wenz, Alexander ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 Assessing the quality of digital behavioral data for measuring smartphone use. (2023) 4th Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop 2023 - Contextual Integrity in Theory and Empirical Application (Manchester, UK) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Wenz, Alexander ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 How to increase the acceptance of mobile app and sensor data collection? (2023) 78th Annual AAPOR Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Philadelphia, PA) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Zhang, Chan ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 Exploring the effect of progress feedback and incentives on participant behaviors in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies. (2023) 78th Annual AAPOR Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Philadelphia, PA) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

2022

Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Bonnay, Denis ; Kalaora, Luc (2022) Understanding political news media consumption with digital trace data and natural language processing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society Oxford 185 S2 246-269 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Silber, Henning ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 (2022) A preregistered vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. Politics and the Life Sciences : PLS Cambridge 41 2 161-181 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Höhne, Jan Karem ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Gavras, Konstantin ; Schlosser, Stephan (2022) The Sound of respondents: Predicting respondents’ level of Interest with voice data in smartphone surveys. SSRN Working Paper Series Rochester, NY [Arbeitspapier]

Lorenz, Reilly ; Beck, Jacob ; Horneber, Sophie ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Antoun, Christopher (2022) Chapter 10, Google trends as a tool for public opinion research: An illustration of the perceived threats of immigration. Pötzschke, Steffen ; Rinken, Sebastian Migration research in a digitized world : using innovative technology to tackle methodological challenges IMISCOE Research Series Cham 193-206 [Buchkapitel]

Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Lin, Cinny ; Ganesh, Vighnesh Natarajan ; Rathi, Prakhar ; Sasson, Amit (2022) Bottom-up economic forecasting of regional unemployment in Germany. Wawrzyniak, Barbara ; Herter, Michael Neue Dimensionen in Data Science : Interdisziplinäre Ansätze und Anwendungen aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft Berlin 299-311 [Buchkapitel]

Areal, João ORCID: 0000-0001-6009-2785 (2022) "Them" without "us" : negative identities and affective polarization in Brazil. Political Research Exchange : PRX London 4 1, Article 2117635 1-26 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Kaiser, Patrick ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Rügamer, David Uncertainty-aware predictive modeling for fair data-driven decisions. (2022) Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML), Workshop at NeurIPS 2022 (Online) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Haas, Georg-Christoph ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Frölich, Markus (2022) Comparing single-sitting versus modular text message surveys in Egypt. International Journal of Public Opinion Research Oxford 34 3 1-11 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Silber, Henning ; Breuer, Johannes ; Beuthner, Christoph ; Gummer, Tobias ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Siegers, Pascal ; Stier, Sebastian ; Weiß, Bernd (2022) Linking surveys and digital trace data: Insights from two studies on determinants of data sharing behaviour. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society Oxford 185 S2 387-407 [Zeitschriftenartikel]

Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Mehltretter, Florian A review of the use of Google trends data in survey and public opinion research. (2022) AAPOR 77th Annual Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Chicago, IL) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Pankowska, Paulina K. ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Cernat, Alexandru Measuring Facebook use: The accuracy of self-reported data versus digital trace data. (2022) JSM 2022, Joint Statistical Meetings Conference (Washington, DC) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Malich, Sonja ; Haas, Georg-Christoph ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Bähr, Sebastian ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 ; Trappmann, Mark Challenges of measuring social interaction with smartphone app data. (2022) GOR 2022, 24th General Online Research Conference 2022 (Berlin, Germany) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Malich, Sonja ; Bähr, Sebastian ; Haas, Georg-Christoph ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 ; Trappmann, Mark Methodische Herausforderungen bei der Aufbereitung und Auswertung von Smartphone-Daten zur Messung sozialer Interaktion. (2022) Frühjahrstagung der Sektion „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) - Potentiale und Herausforderungen von digitalen Verhaltensdaten in der empirischen Sozialforschung (Mannheim, Germany, Online) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Silber, Henning ; Gerdon, Frederic ORCID: 0000-0003-4442-6698 ; Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 ; Kern, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-4299 ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 ; Kreuter, Frauke ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2645 In which situations are people likely to share their health data? A vignette experiment on willingness to donate three different types of health data. (2022) Frühjahrstagung der Sektion „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) - Potentiale und Herausforderungen von digitalen Verhaltensdaten in der empirischen Sozialforschung (Mannheim, Germany, Online) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

Yan, Ting ; Keusch, Florian ORCID: 0000-0003-1002-4092 In which direction do you think this scale should go? Scale direction preference and its impact on survey responses. (2022) AAPOR 77th Annual Conference, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Chicago, IL) [Präsentation auf Konferenz]

2021

Bach, Ruben L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5690-2829 (2021) A methodological framework for the analysis of panel conditioning effects. Cernat, Alexandru ; Sakshaug, Joseph W. Measurement error in longitudinal data Oxford ; New York, NY 19-41 [Buchkapitel]