GESIS Research Graph

The GESIS Research Graph was one of the first working deployments of the Research Graph Augment API. GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany's largest infrastructure institution for the social sciences, based in Mannheim and Cologne, implemented it. The project built one connected graph of the publications, datasets and grants around the GESIS collections, and enriched that graph with links drawn from the global network of scholarly works. It put the augmentation method to work on a national research infrastructure, at a scale of 180,582 nodes.

This page is a record of the completed GESIS project. The figures below are those the project published, and they are no longer updated.

What the project built

publications, including 8,596 augmented nodes: 110,949
datasets, including 160 augmented nodes: 6,259
grants: 53,914

An augmented node is a record that the Augment API drew into the graph from the global network of scholarly works.

The open graph

The project released the complete graph as open data. It holds 180,582 nodes and remains available for download in GraphML format.

Download the GraphML file

A network drawing of a small section of the GESIS graph — A small section of the GESIS graph. The colours are the clusters the drawing tool found, not entity types.

Two-thirds of the publications date from 2000 or later

Bar chart of publications in the GESIS graph by year of publication, from 1950 to 2017 — Publications in the GESIS graph by year of publication.

Publications by year, in the same figures as the chart. Download the data (CSV).
Decade	…0	…1	…2	…3	…4	…5	…6	…7	…8	…9
1950s	2	2	10	6	19	12	8	11	11	13
1960s	19	11	24	22	15	38	27	34	46	54
1970s	60	46	60	81	69	82	85	106	121	93
1980s	131	105	151	184	231	275	247	272	279	344
1990s	454	513	581	625	690	681	758	794	911	867
2000s	1,064	1,015	960	1,067	974	987	1,087	1,014	1,097	1,243
2010s	1,251	1,334	1,593	1,583	1,691	1,420	934	172

Researchers with most publications

Author	Publications	ORCID
Carlo La Vecchia	3,719	0000-0003-1441-897X
Colin Williams	487	0000-0002-3610-1933
Graham Thornicroft	358	0000-0003-0662-0879
Donald Lynam	292	0000-0001-8306-498X
Silvano Gallus	221	0000-0002-8967-0400
Hynek Pikhart	217	0000-0001-5277-4049
Chris Sibley	196	0000-0002-4064-8800
Roy Thurik	151	0000-0002-0242-6908
Steven Van de Walle	123	0000-0003-1531-7097
Daniel Diaz-Fuentes	119	0000-0002-6290-2363

Researchers with most datasets

Author	Datasets	ORCID
Christof Wolf	94	0000-0002-9364-9524
Alison Park	33	0000-0001-5650-3852
Thomas Hildebrandt	9	0000-0001-7054-9590
Paula Devine	7	0000-0002-8212-8619
Thomas Gschwend	7	0000-0002-8656-9622

No two authors wrote more than four works together

Bar chart of the pairs of authors in the GESIS graph with the most co-authored works — The fifteen pairs of authors in the GESIS graph with the most co-authored works.

Each pair is counted once. Download the data (CSV).
Author	Co-author	Co-authored works
Daniel Diaz-Fuentes	Marcos Fernandez-Gutierrez	4
Sebastian Jilke	Steven Van De Walle	4
Alison Park	Paula Devine	3
Alberto Marzucchi	Roberto Zoboli	2
Alison Park	Christof Wolf	2
Carlo La Vecchia	Jose M Martínez-Sánchez	2
Carlo La Vecchia	Silvano Gallus	2
Daniel Diaz-Fuentes	Judith Clifton	2
Giovanni Marin	Roberto Zoboli	2
Judith Clifton	Marcos Fernandez-Gutierrez	2
Olga Popova	Vladimir Otrachshenko	2
Alberto Marzucchi	Giovanni Marin	1
Alistair Stott	Luiza Toma	1
Alvaro Martinez-Perez	Colin Williams	1
Andrea Ceron	Vincenzo Memoli	1