Raphael H Heiberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 106127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael H Heiberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Heiberger |
| SIGNATURE | HEIBERGER R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3465-7214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identifying Social Group Mentions in Online Political Discussions: Ambiguity, Subjectivity, and Label Variation
Since political discourse often revolves around determining which social groups are deemed deserving of resources, political social media discussions often reference them. Thereby, “social group” is a broad concept referring to collections of individuals who are categorized based on diverse criteria or attributions. Thus, social group mentions in text are prime examples of complex and ambiguous social concepts that have only recently garnered att…
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: How international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education
The integration of migrants and refugees (M&R) into national education systems is crucial for their societal and economic inclusion and has been a cornerstone in the global education agenda. In this study, we examine how international organisations (IOs) shape the discourse on M&R education policies. We analyse how IOs frame M&R education across different organisational clusters, by employing Sociological Institutionalism (SI) and Organisational …
Professors in the media: Dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a population of social science professors in Germany (N = 2,207). We ask whether and to what extent scientists appear in German printed media (N = 26,729) as a result of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender. We link bibliometric data on professors’ caree…
The social ecology of intergenerational closure in school class networks. Socio-spatial conditions of parents’ norm generation and their effects on students’ interpersonal conflicts
PopBert. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag
The rise of populism concerns many political scientists and practitioners, yet the detection of its underlying language remains fragmentary. This paper aims to provide a reliable, valid, and scalable approach to measure populist rhetoric. For that purpose, we created an annotated dataset based on parliamentary speeches of the German Bundestag (2013–2021). Following the ideational definition of populism, we label moralizing references to “the virt…
Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)
Policy actors (PAs) like nongovernmental organizations, political parties or governmental institutions strategically communicate on social media to gain attention and thus influence the public agenda. We argue that networks of PAs engaged in the same issues (i.e., a PA’s peer network ) are crucial to attracting the interest of a broad audience. Drawing on network theory, we posit that (i) ideological homophily, and (ii) the centrality and embedde…
Between Europeanism and Nativism: Exploring a Cleavage Model of European Public Sphere in Social Media
The European Union’s common public sphere project dates back to the 1960s and relies on Europeanisation through the gradual eradication of communication boundaries between its member countries. However, it is evident by now that Europeanisation of national public spheres is hard to achieve by increasing overlaps between national public spheres, synchronisation of news reporting across national boundaries, or diffusion of Europeanist norms into na…
Applying Machine Learning in Sociology: How to Predict Gender and Reveal Research Preferences
Applications of machine learning (ML) in industry and natural sciences yielded some of the most impactful innovations of the last decade (for instance, artificial intelligence, gene prediction or search engines) and changed the everyday-life of many people. From a methodological perspective, we can differentiate between unsupervised machine learning (UML) and supervised machine learning (SML). While SML uses labeled data as input to train algorit…
Diverse Effects of Mass Media on Concerns about Immigration: New Evidence from Germany, 2001-2016
Media discourse is often seen as an important condition of people's attitudes and perceptions. Despite a rich literature, however, it is not well understood how media exposure influences attitudes towards immigrants. In contrast to previous studies, we argue that people rely on 'availability heuristics' shaped by mass media. From that point of view, it is the specific content of media discourse on immigration that affects people's concerns. We us…
Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015
We map the topic structure of psychology utilizing a sample of over 500,000 abstracts of research articles and conference proceedings spanning two decades (1995–2015). To do so, we apply structural topic models to examine three research questions: (i) What are the discipline’s most prevalent research topics? (ii) How did the scientific discourse in psychology change over the last decades, especially since the advent of neurosciences? (iii) And wa…
Do Not Blame the Media! The Role of Politicians and Parties in Fragmenting Online Political Debate
Democratic politics builds on both clear differences and shared common ground. While the rise of digital media may have enabled more differences to be articulated, common ground is often seen as threatened by fragmentation of political debate, which some see as driven by news media. The relative importance of political actors (parties and politicians) in driving fragmentation has received less attention. In this paper, we compare how news media a…
Facets of Specialization and Its Relation to Career Success: An Analysis of U.S. Sociology, 1980 to 2015
We investigate how sociology students garner recognition from niche field audiences through specialization. Our dataset comprises over 80,000 sociology-related dissertations completed at U.S. universities, as well as data on graduates’ pursuant publications. We analyze different facets of how students specialize—topic choice, focus, novelty, and consistency. To measure specialization types within a consistent methodological frame, we utilize stru…
Paradigm Wars Revisited: A Cartography of Graduate Research in the Field of Education (1980–2010)
Education entails conflicting perspectives about its subject matter. In the late 1980s, the conflict developed into a war between interpretive and causal paradigms. Did the confrontation result in a balance between these warring sides? We use text analysis to identify research trends in 137,024 dissertation abstracts from 1980 to 2010 and relate these to students’ academic employment outcomes. Topics associated with the interpretive approach rose…
Eine Frage des Marktes? Regionale Unterschiede von Heimentgelten stationärer Pflegeeinrichtungen
Installing computational social science: Facing the challenges of new information and communication technologies in social science
Today's world allows people to connect over larger distances and in shorter intervals than ever before, widely monitored by massive online data sources. Ongoing worldwide computerization has led to completely new opportunities for social scientists to conceive human interactions and relations in unknown precision and quantities. However, the large data sets require techniques that are more likely to be found in computer and natural sciences than …
Die Soziale Konstruktion Von Preisen: Beeinflussung Von Kultur, Netzwerken und Institutionellen Regeln Von Aktienkursen
Die Bedeutung institutioneller Regeln für das Handeln an Börsen. Eine soziologische Perspektive auf Aktienrückkäufe in Deutschland
U.S. and Whom? Structures and Communities of International Economic Research
Most studies concerned with empirical social networks are conducted on the level of individuals. The interaction of scientists is an especially popular research area, with the growing importance of international collaboration as a common sense result. To analyze patterns of cooperation across nations, this paper investigates the structure and evolution of cross-country co-authorships for the field of economics from 1985 to 2011. For a long time e…
Diverse Effects of Mass Media on Concerns about Immigration: New Evidence from Germany, 2001-2016
Media discourse is often seen as an important condition of people's attitudes and perceptions. Despite a rich literature, however, it is not well understood how media exposure influences attitudes towards immigrants. In contrast to previous studies, we argue that people rely on 'availability heuristics' shaped by mass media. From that point of view, it is the specific content of media discourse on immigration that affects people's concerns. We us…
Paradigm Wars Revisited: A Cartography of Graduate Research in the Field of Education (1980–2010)
Education entails conflicting perspectives about its subject matter. In the late 1980s, the conflict developed into a war between interpretive and causal paradigms. Did the confrontation result in a balance between these warring sides? We use text analysis to identify research trends in 137,024 dissertation abstracts from 1980 to 2010 and relate these to students’ academic employment outcomes. Topics associated with the interpretive approach rose…
Installing computational social science: Facing the challenges of new information and communication technologies in social science
Today's world allows people to connect over larger distances and in shorter intervals than ever before, widely monitored by massive online data sources. Ongoing worldwide computerization has led to completely new opportunities for social scientists to conceive human interactions and relations in unknown precision and quantities. However, the large data sets require techniques that are more likely to be found in computer and natural sciences than …
Facets of Specialization and Its Relation to Career Success: An Analysis of U.S. Sociology, 1980 to 2015
We investigate how sociology students garner recognition from niche field audiences through specialization. Our dataset comprises over 80,000 sociology-related dissertations completed at U.S. universities, as well as data on graduates’ pursuant publications. We analyze different facets of how students specialize—topic choice, focus, novelty, and consistency. To measure specialization types within a consistent methodological frame, we utilize stru…
Do Not Blame the Media! The Role of Politicians and Parties in Fragmenting Online Political Debate
Democratic politics builds on both clear differences and shared common ground. While the rise of digital media may have enabled more differences to be articulated, common ground is often seen as threatened by fragmentation of political debate, which some see as driven by news media. The relative importance of political actors (parties and politicians) in driving fragmentation has received less attention. In this paper, we compare how news media a…
PopBert. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag
The rise of populism concerns many political scientists and practitioners, yet the detection of its underlying language remains fragmentary. This paper aims to provide a reliable, valid, and scalable approach to measure populist rhetoric. For that purpose, we created an annotated dataset based on parliamentary speeches of the German Bundestag (2013–2021). Following the ideational definition of populism, we label moralizing references to “the virt…
Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)
Policy actors (PAs) like nongovernmental organizations, political parties or governmental institutions strategically communicate on social media to gain attention and thus influence the public agenda. We argue that networks of PAs engaged in the same issues (i.e., a PA’s peer network ) are crucial to attracting the interest of a broad audience. Drawing on network theory, we posit that (i) ideological homophily, and (ii) the centrality and embedde…
Applying Machine Learning in Sociology: How to Predict Gender and Reveal Research Preferences
Applications of machine learning (ML) in industry and natural sciences yielded some of the most impactful innovations of the last decade (for instance, artificial intelligence, gene prediction or search engines) and changed the everyday-life of many people. From a methodological perspective, we can differentiate between unsupervised machine learning (UML) and supervised machine learning (SML). While SML uses labeled data as input to train algorit…
U.S. and Whom? Structures and Communities of International Economic Research
Most studies concerned with empirical social networks are conducted on the level of individuals. The interaction of scientists is an especially popular research area, with the growing importance of international collaboration as a common sense result. To analyze patterns of cooperation across nations, this paper investigates the structure and evolution of cross-country co-authorships for the field of economics from 1985 to 2011. For a long time e…
Die Soziale Konstruktion Von Preisen: Beeinflussung Von Kultur, Netzwerken und Institutionellen Regeln Von Aktienkursen
Die Bedeutung institutioneller Regeln für das Handeln an Börsen. Eine soziologische Perspektive auf Aktienrückkäufe in Deutschland
U.S. and Whom? Structures and Communities of International Economic Research
Most studies concerned with empirical social networks are conducted on the level of individuals. The interaction of scientists is an especially popular research area, with the growing importance of international collaboration as a common sense result. To analyze patterns of cooperation across nations, this paper investigates the structure and evolution of cross-country co-authorships for the field of economics from 1985 to 2011. For a long time e…
Installing computational social science: Facing the challenges of new information and communication technologies in social science
Today's world allows people to connect over larger distances and in shorter intervals than ever before, widely monitored by massive online data sources. Ongoing worldwide computerization has led to completely new opportunities for social scientists to conceive human interactions and relations in unknown precision and quantities. However, the large data sets require techniques that are more likely to be found in computer and natural sciences than …
Eine Frage des Marktes? Regionale Unterschiede von Heimentgelten stationärer Pflegeeinrichtungen
Paradigm Wars Revisited: A Cartography of Graduate Research in the Field of Education (1980–2010)
Education entails conflicting perspectives about its subject matter. In the late 1980s, the conflict developed into a war between interpretive and causal paradigms. Did the confrontation result in a balance between these warring sides? We use text analysis to identify research trends in 137,024 dissertation abstracts from 1980 to 2010 and relate these to students’ academic employment outcomes. Topics associated with the interpretive approach rose…
Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015
We map the topic structure of psychology utilizing a sample of over 500,000 abstracts of research articles and conference proceedings spanning two decades (1995–2015). To do so, we apply structural topic models to examine three research questions: (i) What are the discipline’s most prevalent research topics? (ii) How did the scientific discourse in psychology change over the last decades, especially since the advent of neurosciences? (iii) And wa…
Do Not Blame the Media! The Role of Politicians and Parties in Fragmenting Online Political Debate
Democratic politics builds on both clear differences and shared common ground. While the rise of digital media may have enabled more differences to be articulated, common ground is often seen as threatened by fragmentation of political debate, which some see as driven by news media. The relative importance of political actors (parties and politicians) in driving fragmentation has received less attention. In this paper, we compare how news media a…
Facets of Specialization and Its Relation to Career Success: An Analysis of U.S. Sociology, 1980 to 2015
We investigate how sociology students garner recognition from niche field audiences through specialization. Our dataset comprises over 80,000 sociology-related dissertations completed at U.S. universities, as well as data on graduates’ pursuant publications. We analyze different facets of how students specialize—topic choice, focus, novelty, and consistency. To measure specialization types within a consistent methodological frame, we utilize stru…
Between Europeanism and Nativism: Exploring a Cleavage Model of European Public Sphere in Social Media
The European Union’s common public sphere project dates back to the 1960s and relies on Europeanisation through the gradual eradication of communication boundaries between its member countries. However, it is evident by now that Europeanisation of national public spheres is hard to achieve by increasing overlaps between national public spheres, synchronisation of news reporting across national boundaries, or diffusion of Europeanist norms into na…
Applying Machine Learning in Sociology: How to Predict Gender and Reveal Research Preferences
Applications of machine learning (ML) in industry and natural sciences yielded some of the most impactful innovations of the last decade (for instance, artificial intelligence, gene prediction or search engines) and changed the everyday-life of many people. From a methodological perspective, we can differentiate between unsupervised machine learning (UML) and supervised machine learning (SML). While SML uses labeled data as input to train algorit…
Diverse Effects of Mass Media on Concerns about Immigration: New Evidence from Germany, 2001-2016
Media discourse is often seen as an important condition of people's attitudes and perceptions. Despite a rich literature, however, it is not well understood how media exposure influences attitudes towards immigrants. In contrast to previous studies, we argue that people rely on 'availability heuristics' shaped by mass media. From that point of view, it is the specific content of media discourse on immigration that affects people's concerns. We us…
The social ecology of intergenerational closure in school class networks. Socio-spatial conditions of parents’ norm generation and their effects on students’ interpersonal conflicts
PopBert. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag
The rise of populism concerns many political scientists and practitioners, yet the detection of its underlying language remains fragmentary. This paper aims to provide a reliable, valid, and scalable approach to measure populist rhetoric. For that purpose, we created an annotated dataset based on parliamentary speeches of the German Bundestag (2013–2021). Following the ideational definition of populism, we label moralizing references to “the virt…
Policy Actors’ Struggle for Attention: The Role of Peer Networks in the Migration Discourse on Twitter (X)
Policy actors (PAs) like nongovernmental organizations, political parties or governmental institutions strategically communicate on social media to gain attention and thus influence the public agenda. We argue that networks of PAs engaged in the same issues (i.e., a PA’s peer network ) are crucial to attracting the interest of a broad audience. Drawing on network theory, we posit that (i) ideological homophily, and (ii) the centrality and embedde…
Professors in the media: Dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scientists do so. Here, we provide an account of a population of social science professors in Germany (N = 2,207). We ask whether and to what extent scientists appear in German printed media (N = 26,729) as a result of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender. We link bibliometric data on professors’ caree…
Identifying Social Group Mentions in Online Political Discussions: Ambiguity, Subjectivity, and Label Variation
Since political discourse often revolves around determining which social groups are deemed deserving of resources, political social media discussions often reference them. Thereby, “social group” is a broad concept referring to collections of individuals who are categorized based on diverse criteria or attributions. Thus, social group mentions in text are prime examples of complex and ambiguous social concepts that have only recently garnered att…
Between niche conservatism and institutionalised expectations: How international organisations frame policies of migrant and refugee education
The integration of migrants and refugees (M&R) into national education systems is crucial for their societal and economic inclusion and has been a cornerstone in the global education agenda. In this study, we examine how international organisations (IOs) shape the discourse on M&R education policies. We analyse how IOs frame M&R education across different organisational clusters, by employing Sociological Institutionalism (SI) and Organisational …
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · German (4 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 works)