Call for Papers (abstracts): General Online Research 2025 (GOR 25, https://www.gor.de)

Connecting People: Innovating Market Research and Social Data Science

When: 31 March – 2 April 2025 

Where: Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany



Main Conference Topics: Online and Mobile Web Surveys, Data Science, Big Data, Smart Data, AI, Public Opinion, Online Communication, Online Market Research.

GOR is organised by the German Society for Online Research (DGOF, https://www.dgof.de/) since 1997. Each year more than 300 participants attend the conference to discuss current developments in online research and best practices for their work in industry and academia. With more than 100 presentations addressing various subtopics of online research, GOR provides intensive training and networking opportunities.
Partner and Co-Organizer: Free University of Berlin, Guest Prof. Dr. Carina Cornesse & Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig.

Please find the detailed Call for Papers here.

The programme committee invites presenters from industry, academia, official statistics, government agencies, and other sectors to submit their work for presentation. Submissions will be accepted based on a double-blind peer review process.  


Submission Types

Paper Presentations: We welcome submissions that advance the methodology of online and mobile web surveys, focus on the use of large and complex datasets to answer research questions in the social sciences, market research, and related fields, as well as submissions in online research on public opinion and communication. Examples of presentation topics include but are not limited to:
Sampling and recruitment Response rates, Measurement and measurement error, Survey practice, Survey innovations, Survey modes, Qualitative research, Online data collection and generation, Digital trace data, Data science, Artificial intelligence, Online communication and public opinion

GOR Impact & Innovation Award 2025 competition: please see separate call at https://www.dgof.de/forschungsfoerderung/gor-impact-innovation-award/

Posters (including the GOR Poster Award 2025 competition): Posters offer the opportunity to present late breaking research, highlight specific research findings, and discuss work in progress. Authors are expected to present their poster during a poster session. A poster may cover any of the topics of GOR. All submissions in this category are considered for the GOR Poster Award 2025.

Thesis Presentations (including the GOR Thesis Award 2025 competition): Up to 3 bachelor/master/diploma theses and up to 3 doctoral theses will be selected to be presented at GOR in this category.


Deadlines 


Submission Format and Submission Procedure

The official conference language is English. Abstracts should be submitted online via https://www.conftool.org/gor25/

The abstract can be up to 350 words. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed with respect to the quality of each of the four paragraphs in the abstract.


Template for abstract submission:

Relevance & Research Question: —your text here—

Methods & Data: —your text here—

Results: —your text here—

Added Value: —your text here—

Please use the above template for your abstract submission (one paragraph for each criterion and include the keywords at the beginning of each paragraph). Incomplete abstracts with respect to the formal criteria above are likely to be rejected.


Contact Details
Conference website, abstract submission, workshops: https://www.gor.de/
Contact: office@dgof.de

September 2024

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Florian Keusch
Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology | A5, 6 | 68131 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 181-3214 
E-mail: f.keusch@uni-mannheim.de