Since 2010, the ALLBUS group (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) annually awards one of two prizes for outstanding scientific works which use the analytic potential of ALLBUS data in original ways:

• The ALLBUS Award, which is open to all researchers, emphasizes the special importance of the ALLBUS as a methodologically sophisticated and rich data source for the social sciences by awarding prizes for articles in specialist journals or book contributions.
• The ALLBUS Award for Young Researchers emphasizes the importance of the ALLBUS for the training of young researchers by awarding prizes for qualification papers.

All scientific papers which use ALLBUS as a main data source are eligible for the awards. The winners are selected by the scientific advisory body of ALLBUS, the Study Coordination Group. Entries will be judged on the originality and importance of the methodological or content-related question adressed in the paper as well as the sophistication of the statistical methods employed in the analysis.