Dear colleagues,

The German Society for Online Research (DGOF) will recognize outstanding scientific contributions in online research with the DGOF Best Paper Award 2020. The DGOF by-laws define “online research” as any type of research about computers or other devices that are connected by a network, in particular the Internet. Online research includes online based data collection (e.g., web surveys in online panels), mobile research with smartphones, tablets, and wearables, and the collection and analysis of social media data, administrative data, data from passive measurements, and other Big Data sources.

The prize will be awarded to a paper that provides a fundamental scientific contribution to the advancement of the methods of online research. Topics that are suitable for the award can be found in the program of the annual General Online Research (GOR) conference (www.gor.de). Both theoretical/conceptual and empirical/methodological papers are considered for the award. Papers that do not focus on online research but, for example, merely use online data collection (e.g., through a web survey) to answer a substantive research question will not be considered.

To be considered for the award, papers must be published in an outlet that uses a peer-review process (e.g., peer-reviewed journal, full papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, refereed book chapter) at the time of submission. Papers written in German or English and published not earlier than 2018 (if the paper was published online-first, then the online-first publication date counts) can be submitted for the DGOF Best Paper Award 2020.

To be considered for the DGOF Best Paper Award 2020, please go to the following website and fill in the online application form by 30 September 2019: https://www.dgof.de/forschungsfoerderung/dgof-best-paper-award/

Best regards, Florian Keusch