Staff

The many faces of GESIS

Vita

Study of Sociology, Ethnology and Philosophy at the University of Cologne (Magister Artium). Staff Member of the GESIS Data Archive in the area of data ingest and curator of the data repository datorium from 2013 to 2015. Research Assistant in the DFG-project "Georeferencing of Survey Data" (GeorefUm) from 2015 to 2017. From 2017 to 2019 Research Assistant in the DFG-project "Social-Spatial Sciences Research Data Infrastructure" (SoRa). Since 2019 researcher in the area of georeferencing at GESIS. Completed doctoral studies on the use of georeferenced data in social science survey research in 2019.

Service

As postdoctoral researcher, Stefan Jünger provides services in the area of geocoding, georeferencing, and spatial linking.

Research

Use, analysis and data management of georeferenced data in social science (survey) research.

Publications

Journal article

Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "GRETA analytics: Communicating the spatial dimension of energy citizenship using a collaborative Shiny app." SoftwareX 27 (September 2024): 101800. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101800.

Abel, Dennis, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "Mapping the spatial turn in social science energy research: A computational literature review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 201 (September 2024): 114607. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114607.

Jünger, Stefan, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2023. "Ethnic Diversity and Social Integration - What are the Consequences of Ethnic Residential Boundaries and Halos for Social Integration in Germany?" KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 75 (1): 179-203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-023-00888-1.

Jünger, Stefan. 2022. "Land Use Disadvantages in Germany: A Matter of Ethnic Income Inequalities?" Urban Studies 59 (9): 1819–1836. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211023206.

Bensmann, Felix, Lars Heling, Stefan Jünger, Loren Mucha, Maribel Acosta, Jan Göbel, Gotthard Meinel, Sujit Sikder, York Sure-Vetter, and Benjamin Zapilko. 2020. "An Infrastructure for Spatial Linking of Survey Data." Data Science Journal 19 (1): 27. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-027.

Jünger, Stefan, Kerrin Borschewski, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2019. "Documenting georeferenced social science survey data: Limits of metadata standards and possible solutions." Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 15 (1): 68-95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2019.1659903. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IQCYSYEG3UHYRA3EE7SX/full?target=10.1080/15420353.2019.1659903.

Klinger, Julia, Stefan Müller, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2017. "Der Halo-Effekt in einheimisch-homogenen Nachbarschaften: Steigert die ethnische Diversität angrenzender Nachbarschaften die Xenophobie in Deutschland?" Zeitschrift für Soziologie 46 (6): 402–419. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2017-1022.

Schweers, Stefan, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, Stefan Müller, and Pascal Siegers. 2016. "Conceptualizing a spatial data infrastructure for the social sciences: an example from Germany." Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 12 (1): 100-126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2015.1100152.

Recker, Jonas, Stefan Müller, Jessica Trixa, and Natascha Schumann. 2015. "Paving the way for data-centric, open science. An example from the social sciences." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 3 (2). doi: https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1227.

Recker, Jonas, and Stefan Müller. 2015. "Preserving the Essence: Identifying the Significant Properties of Social Science Research Data." New Review of Information Networking 20 (1-2): 231-237. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2015.1110404.

Chapter in an edited book

Cohen, Denis, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "Wohnungsmärkte, politische Einstellungen und Wahlverhalten bei der Bundestagswahl 2021." In Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2021, edited by Harald Schoen, and Bernhard Weßels, 461-483. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42694-1_18.

Jünger, Stefan, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2022. "Der Halo Effekt in Deutschland – Revisited: Sind Menschen, die in der Nähe von – aber nicht in – ethnisch diversen Nachbarschaften leben besonders xenophob und rassistisch?" In Differenz im Raum: Sozialstruktur und Grenzziehung in deutschen Städten, edited by Hanno Kruse, and Janna Teltemann, 195-218. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35009-3_7.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. "Subjektiv geschätzter und tatsächlicher Ausländeranteil in der Nachbarschaft: Analysen mit dem georeferenzierten ALLBUS 2016 und dem Zensus 2011." In Sozialwissenschaftliche Datenerhebung im digitalen Zeitalter, edited by Tobias Wolbring, Heinz Leitgöb, and Frank Faulbaum, ASI-Schriftenreihe, 173-197. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34396-5_7.

Jünger, Stefan, Loren Mucha, and Gotthard Meinel. 2019. "Die Sozial-Raumwissenschaftliche Forschungsdateninfrastruktur SoRa – Potenziale und Implementierung." In Flächennutzungsmonitoring XI: Flächenmanagement – Bodenversiegelung – Stadtgrün, edited by Gotthard Meinel, Ulrich Schumacher, Martin Behnisch, and Tobias Krüger, IÖR Schriften 77, 139-148. Berlin: Rhombos.

Müller, Stefan. 2019. "Räumliche Verknüpfung georeferenzierter Umfragedaten mit Geodaten: Chancen, Herausforderungen und praktische Empfehlungen." In Forschungsdatenmanagement sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten, edited by Uwe Jensen, Sebastian Netscher, and Katrin Weller, 211-230. Berlin, Opladen, Toronto : Barbara Budrich. doi: https://doi.org/10.3224/84742233.13.

Siegers, Pascal, Stefan Müller, and Julia Klinger. 2019. "Regionalisierung durch Georeferenzierung in der Sozialforschung." In Regionale Standards : Ausgabe 2019, edited by Arbeitsgruppe Regionale Standards, GESIS-Schriftenreihe 23, 78-93. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.62343.

Wira-Alam, Andias, Stefan Müller, and Natascha Schumann. 2015. "datorium: Sharing Platform for Social Science Data: Deposit and Publish Research Data for Better Visibility." In Re:inventing Information Science in the Networked Society: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Information Science, Zadar/Croatia, 19th—21st May 2015, Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft 66, 244-251. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17967.

Monograph

Jünger, Stefan. 2019. Using Georeferenced Data in Social Science Survey Research: The Method of Spatial Linking and Its Application with the German General Social Survey and the GESIS Panel. GESIS-Schriftenreihe 24. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.63688.

Working and discussion paper

Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger, Omar Usmani, and Ajesh Kumar. 2023. 2D GIS-based models for spatial analysis and scenario definition at regional, national and supranational levels.: D4.6 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GRETA_D4_6_2D-GIS-based-models-for-spatial-analysis-and-scenario-definition-at-regional-national-and-supranational-levels_v1_0.pdf.

López, Arantza, Nekane Hermoso, Beatriz Sánchez, Omar Usmani, Carlos Montalvo, Toni Kuronen, Lasse Lensu, Dennis Abel, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. Definition of the modelling framework: D4.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement No. 101022317. https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GRETA_D4.2_Modelling-framework.pdf.

Abel, Dennis, Stefan Jünger, Jonas Lieth, Martina Massari, and Saveria O.B. Boulanger. 2022. Interrelations among different types of citizens in different geographic contexts: D5.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10078096.

Beuthner, Christoph, Johannes Breuer, and Stefan Jünger. 2021. Data Linking: Linking survey data with geospatial, social media, and sensor data. GESIS Survey Guidelines. Mannheim: GESIS - Leibniz institute for the Social Sciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.15465/gesis-sg_en_039.

Jünger, Stefan, Jan-Philipp Kolb, and Maikel Schwerdtfeger. 2020. Georeferencing the GESIS Panel: Background, workflow, and analysis example. GESIS Papers 2020|10. GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.69336.

Jünger, Stefan, and Benjamin Zapilko. 2020. SoRa Survey: Befragung zu georeferenzierten Daten. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.66729.

Müller, Stefan, Stefan Schweers, and Pascal Siegers. 2017. Geocoding and Spatial Linking of Survey Data: An Introduction for Social Scientists. GESIS Papers 2017/15. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.52316.

Data/Software

Jünger, Stefan, and Jonas Lieth. 2022. bkggeocoder – an R Package for geocoding based on the data of the Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) in Germany. https://github.com/StefanJuenger/bkggeocoder.

Jünger, Stefan, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2021. Der Halo‑Effekt in Deutschland Revisited. doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/PBKCD.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities? doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/A2FNY.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. sdcR – Some convenience functions for the GESIS Secure Data Center in combination with R. https://github.com/StefanJuenger/sdcR.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. Subjektiv geschätzter und tatsächlicher Ausländeranteil in der Nachbarschaft. doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GM578.

Jünger, Stefan, and Johannes Breuer. 2021. woRkshoptools– R-Package to create, build, and maintain xaringan slides for our workshops. https://stefanjuenger.github.io/woRkshoptools/.

Jünger, Stefan. 2020. z11 – R Interface to the German Census 2011 Raster Data. https://stefanjuenger.github.io/z11/articles/using-z11.html.

Klinger, Julia, Stefan Müller, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2017. Code/Syntax: "Der Halo-Effekt in einheimisch-homogenen Nachbarschaften" / "The Halo-Effect in Homogeneous Neighborhoods". doi: https://doi.org/10.7802/1493.

Müller, Stefan. 2016. georefum - An R-Package for processing and linking of spatial data within the GeorefUm project at GESIS . https://github.com/stefmue/georefum.

Other article

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. " Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?" In Urban Studies Blog, https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/resources/resource/ land-use-disadvantages-in-germany-a-matter-of-ethnic-income-inequalities/.

Jünger, Stefan, and Johannes Breuer. 2021. "The missing link? Linking surveys with geospatial and digital behavioral data." In GESIS Blog, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: https://doi.org/10.34879/gesisblog.2021.50.

Jünger, Stefan, and Denis Cohen. 2021. "Using geospatial data in R." In Method Bites - Blog of the MZES Social Science Data Lab, https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialsciencedatalab/article/geospatial-data/.

Presentation at a conference

Lieth, Jonas, Theodor Rieche, Stefan Jünger, and Sujit Sikder. 2024. "Address-based, grid cell, municipality level or just federal state? Opportunities and limitations of linking survey data with spatial data on aggregated spatial units." Power of Where: Spatial Insights from Survey Data, Joint Spring Meeting of BBSR, BTU & SOEP RegioHub, 29 February – 1 March 2024, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, 2024-02-29. https://www.diw.de/documents/dokumentenarchiv/17/diw_01.c.899262.de/lieth_etal_2024_address-based_grid_cell_municipality_level_federal_state.pdf.

Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, and Stefan Jünger. 2024. "Mapping energy vulnerability for the analysis of spatial justice: Insights from a survey in 16 EU countries." Eu-SPRI annual conference, 5 - 7 June 2024, University of Twente, Enschede, 2024-06-05.

Abel, Dennis, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. "GESIS meets Copernicus - Establishing an interface to the European Earth Observation Programme: Panel on "Linking Survey Data with Geospatial Data: Potentials, Methods, and Challenges"." 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, 2023-07-20.

Abel, Dennis, Hannah Werner, Stefan Jünger, and Lisanne de Blok. 2023. "Instrumental support for democratic innovations among citizens, politicians and businesses: Panel on "Survey data as a source to study sustainability and environmental issues"." 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, 2023-07-19.

Abel, Dennis, Hannah Werner, Stefan Jünger, and Lisanne de Blok. 2023. "Instrumental support for democratic innovations among citizens, politicians and businesses: Panel on "Climate Change Governance of Tipping Points - Path Dependence or New Imaginaries?"." International Public Policy Association - 6th International Conference for Public Policy (ICPP), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, 2023-06-27.

Lieth, Jonas, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. "The digital geographies of environmental attitudes: A spatial analysis of the German Twitter discourse on global environmental change." Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists, University of Iceland, 2023-06-27.

Jünger, Stefan, Dennis Abel, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Sebastian Ziaja, and Alexia Katsanidou. 2023. "The uncertain geographic context problem and the unknown effect of extreme weather on climate change attitudes: Panel on "Weather Extremes and Climate Change"." GESIS International Expert Workshop on "Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences", GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2023-12-14.

Abel, Dennis, Stefan Jünger, and Jonas Lieth. 2023. "Trust, social cohesion and justice considerations in EU community renewable energy projects: Panel on ``Local Governance for Sustainability''." International Public Policy Association - 6th International Conference for Public Policy (ICPP), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, 2023-06-28.

Abel, Dennis, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2022. "Mapping the Spatial Turn in Energy Research: A Computational Literature Review." Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2022-06-29.

Jünger, Stefan. 2020. "Land Use Disadvantages in Germany: Evidence from the German General Social Survey." Mid-term Conference of Research Network 21 Quantitative Methods of the European Sociological Association , Virtuell, 2020-10-10.

Schwentker, Björn, Paul Becker, Stefan Jünger, and Stefan Wehrmeyer. 2019. "Amtliche Geodaten im öffentlichen Diskurs: Wie schaffen wir bessere Zugangsmöglichkeiten für Wissenschaft und Datenjournalismus? Podiumsdiskussion." SciCAR 2019, 2019-09-09.

Jünger, Stefan. 2019. "Der Nutzen georeferenzierter Daten in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Umfrageforschung: Hintergrund und Anwendung." Gemeinsame Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute (ASI) und der DGS-Sektion „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“:„Empirische Sozialforschung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung – Methodische Konsequenzen neuer Technologien , GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2019-11-15.

Müller, Stefan, Loren Mucha, and Gotthard Meinel. 2019. "Die Sozial-Raumwissenschaftliche Forschungsdateninfrastruktur SoRa: Potenziale und Implementierung." 11. Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium, 2019-04-09.

Borschewski, Kerrin, Stefan Jünger, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2019. "Documenting Georeferenced Social Science Survey Data: Limits and Possible Solutions." ESRA 2019 : 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb (Croatia), 2019-07-18.

Müller, Stefan, and Benjamin Zapilko. 2019. "Investigating social and ethnic inequality by linking survey data to geospatial data." GESIS Panel User Conference 2019, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim, 2019-03-11.

Müller, Stefan, and Pascal Siegers. 2017. "Poster: Do Individual Coping Resources Moderate the Effect of Traffic Noise Exposure on Physical and Mental Health? Results from the Georeferenced German General Social Survey 2014." ESRA 2017: 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, 2017-07-19.

Klinger, Julia, Stefan Müller, and Merlin Schaeffer. 2017. "The Halo-Effect in Homogeneous Neighborhoods: Does the Ethnic Diversity of Bordering Neighborhoods Increase Xenophobia in Germany?" ESRA 2017: 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, 2017-07-21.

Schweers, Stefan, Stefan Müller, and Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda. 2016. "Implementing an infrastructure to georeference survey data at the GESIS Data Archive." IASSIST 2016, 2016-06-03.

Müller, Stefan, Stefan Schweers, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, Pascal Siegers, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2016. "Studying the influence of the direct living environment: examples with the georeferenced German General Social Survey 2014." RC33 Conference 2016. 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, 2016-09-14.

Müller, Stefan, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, and Stefan Schweers. 2016. "The Past, Present and Future of Geocoded Survey Data at the GESIS Data Archive." EDDI16 – 8th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2016-12-06. http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi16/paper/view/245.

Müller, Stefan, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, and Stefan Schweers. 2015. "Georeferenced Survey Data at the GESIS Data Archive." EDDI15 – 7th Annual European DDI User Conference, 2015-12-02. http://www.eddi-conferences.eu/ocs/index.php/eddi/eddi15/paper/view/191.

Schumann, Natascha, Jonas Recker, Stefan Müller, and Reiner Mauer. 2015. "Konzept für die Definition signifikanter Eigenschaften von sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten." DINI/nestor Workshop "Langzeitarchivierung von Forschungsdaten", 2015-02-23. http://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/DINI-nestor-WS3.

Recker, Jonas A., and Stefan Müller. 2015. "Preserving the essence: Identifying the significant properties of social science research data." DPASSH 2015: Digital Preservation in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 2015-06-25.

Schweers, Stefan, Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda, and Stefan Müller. 2015. "The analysis potential of georeferenced survey data: Combining the ALLBUS survey with environmental noise measurements." CSS Wintersymposium, 2015-12-02.

Müller, Stefan, and Jonas A. Recker. 2014. "A rose is a rose is a rose? Defining significant properties of social sciences research data." OR2014: Open Repositories 2014 Conference, 2014-06-12. http://www.slideshare.net/GESISarchivetraining/a-rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose.

Müller, Stefan, and Natascha Schumann. 2014. "Poster on datorium. A data sharing service for publication and re-use of social science research data." 2nd Data Management Workshop, 2014-11-28. http://www.tr32db.uni-koeln.de/workshops/poster.php?wsID=4.

Schumann, Natascha, and Stefan Müller. 2014. "Poster: Offen, einfach, sicher: datorium." Open Access Tage 2014, 8./9. September 2014. http://open-access.net/fileadmin/OAT/OAT14/datorium_Poster_25-08-2014.pdf.

Presentation not at a conference

Jünger, Stefan. 2020. "Management and Analysis of Georeferenced Survey Data." MZES Social Science Data Lab, 2020-10-21.

Jünger, Stefan. 2020. "On the use of GIS in environmental social science (survey) research: Data management, tools, and applications ." Environmental social sciences: Current issues and future perspectives. Workshop at the University of Bern , University of Bern, 2020-08-28.

Jünger, Stefan. 2020. "Räumliche Daten bei GESIS." Online-Workshop der AG „Methoden“ der Sektion "Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie" in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 2020-06-19.

Borschewski, Kerrin, André Förster, Stefan Jünger, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2019. "Data Linking II: Georeferenced survey data." CESSDA Training Days 2019, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2019-11-27.

Schweers, Stefan, and Stefan Müller. 2016. "Conceptualizing a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Social Sciences: An example from Germany." Preserving Transactional Data: A Digital Preservation Coalition Briefing Day, 2016-03-17. http://dpconline.org/events/previous-events/1635-preserving-transactional-data.

Müller, Stefan. 2014. "datorium: we make your data feel at home." Introduction to Research Data Management for Social Scientists. GESIS Summer School 2014, 2014-08-08.

Other

Jünger, Stefan, and Anne-Kathrin Stroppe. 2024. "Introduction to Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

Jünger, Stefan, and Anne-Kathrin Stroppe. 2023. "Introduction to Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim.

Jünger, Stefan. 2022. "Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists." Universität Konstanz, Konstanz. 12 SWS.

Breuer, Johannes, Stefan Jünger, and Veronika Batzdorfer. 2022. "GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology. Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. "First Steps on Using R as a Geographic Information System. Short Course." ESRA 2021, Munich.

Jünger, Stefan, and Anne-Kathrin Stroppe. 2021. "Geospatial techniques for social scientists in R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

Breuer, Johannes, and Stefan Jünger. 2021. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

Breuer, Johannes, and Stefan Jünger. 2021. "Introduction to Survey Data Cleaning Using Tidyverse in R." ESRA 2021, Munich.

Jünger, Stefan. 2021. "Using the statistical language R as a Geographic Information System." Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, Bergen.

Breuer, Johannes, and Stefan Jünger. 2020. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

Breuer, Johannes, Stefan Jünger, and Thomas Ebel. 2019. "Data Wrangling & Exploration with the Tidyverse in R." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim.