đź‘‹ Hi I am David Schoch
I am the team lead for “Transparent Social Analytics” in the Department for Computational Social Science at GESIS.
/sci/
I publish in the fields:
Network Analysis; Computational Social Science; Open Science
My last five publications:
- “The interplay of structural features and observed dissimilarities among centrality indices”. D Schoch, T Shafie. Social Networks (link)
- “Ideological self-selection in online news exposure: Evidence from Europe and the US”. F Mangold, D Schoch, S Stier. Science Advances (link)
- “Netzwerkvisualisierung”. D Schoch. Handbuch Netzwerkforschung (link)
- “Die Vermittlung von Best Practices zur Messung von Datenqualität in den quantitativen Sozialwissenschaften”. J Dehne, J Daikeler, H Silber, B Rammstedt, F Keusch, F Kreuter, …. INFORMATIK (link)
- “graphlayouts: Layout algorithms for network visualizations in R”. D Schoch. Journal of Open Source Software (link)
My three most cited publications (2024-11-08):
- “What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks?”. LF Bringmann, T Elmer, S Epskamp, RW Krause, D Schoch, M Wichers, …. Journal of abnormal psychology (link) Citations: 877
- “Political astroturfing on twitter: How to coordinate a disinformation campaign”. FB Keller, D Schoch, S Stier, JH Yang. Political communication (link) Citations: 411
- “How to manipulate social media: Analyzing political astroturfing using ground truth data from South Korea”. F Keller, D Schoch, S Stier, JH Yang. Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media (link) Citations: 90
See google scholar for a full list.
/dev/
I mainly develop packages for R and extensions for Quarto.
R packages
adaR 
dialrs 
domainator 
edgebundle 
graphlayouts 
levelnet 
netrankr 
netUtils 
networkdata 
oaqc 
paperwizard 
PSAWR 
RFPNG 
Rokemon 
roughnet 
roughsf 
rtoot 
Rtumblr 
shortuuid 
signnet 
snahelper 
stabilityAI 
startifyR 
strzip 
timeless 
webbotparseR 
webtrackR
Quarto extensions
Academicons â—Ź Devicons â—Ź Blackboard revealjs theme â—Ź Sketchy HTML theme â—Ź Social Share Buttons â—Ź Nutshell â—Ź Quartocities â—Ź Glossary with nutshell â—Ź CV templates â—Ź
see my GitHub and r-universe profiles for more details.
Tutorials
I have created a series of tutorials for network analysis:
I am also an author of the book R4SNA
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I have various (more or less) interesting side projects: