Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of societies, especially of those societies that undergo rapid social changes. Empirical analyses are fed into the steering processes that are shaping a Europe of Nations. But data are also essential for the support of...

The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference "Opening data services in the social sciences", Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. The author wishes to thank the SERSCIDA project. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of...

The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference “Opening data services in the social sciences”, Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of societies, especially of those societies that undergo...

The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference Opening data services in the social sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. The author wishes to thank the SERSCIDA project. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of societies,...

This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000...

Cooperation between researchers, research funders and peerreviewed journals is a key approach - otherwise we will continue to hear merry-go-round rationals why science is still unscientific in the 21st century and nobody's to blame: the researchers as individuals cannot bring about change. They...

Um Data Replication and Reproducibility von Forschungsergebnissen systematisch so sicherzustellen wie dies notwendig ist und in den Lehrbüchern steht, muss im Selbstverständnis und Agieren aller am Forschungs- und Publikationsprozess beteiligten Akteure sich etwas ändern. Und dafür...

This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000...

Um "Data Replication and Reproducibility" von Forschungsergebnissen systematisch so sicherzustellen wie dies notwendig ist und in den Lehrbüchern steht, muss im Selbstverständnis und Agieren aller am Forschungs- und Publikationsprozess beteiligten Akteure sich etwas ändern. Und dafür...

Cooperation between researchers, research funders and peerreviewed journals is a key approach - otherwise we will continue to hear merry-go-round rationals why science is still unscientific in the 21st century and nobody's to blame: the researchers as individuals cannot bring about change. They...