Publications
All my studies are openly accessable below. Adhering to the idea of transparent and replicable research, I always upload the code of my published studies to the Open Science Framework. Feel free to use any material for secondary analyses, teaching, or other purposes.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
27. Brodeur, A., & 100+ co-authors (forthcoming). Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
26. Brodeur, A., & 100+ co-authors (2026). Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research. Nature 652: 151–156.
25. Aczel, B., & 100+ co-authors (2026). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature 652: 135–142.
24. Czymara, C. S., Gorodzeisky, A., & Leykin, I. (2025). Political Legacies and Present Perceptions of Migrants. Comparative Migration Studies.
23. Czymara, C. S., Eisentraut, M., Kolkwitz-Anstötz, P., Davidov, E., & Schmidt, P. (2025). Antisemitism Among Muslims in Germany. European Sociological Review 41(4): 607–625.
22. Breznau, N., & 100+ co-authors (2025). The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions. Royal Society Open Science 12(3): 1–23.
21. Czymara, C. S. & Gorodzeisky, A. (2024). Hostility on Twitter in the Aftermath of Terror Attacks. Journal of Computational Social Science 7(2): 1305–1325.
20. May, A. C., & Czymara, C. S. (2024). Careless Whisper: Political Elite Discourses Activate National Identities for Far-right Voting Preferences. Nations and Nationalism 30(1): 90–109.
19. Czymara, C. S. & Bauer, L. (2025). Discursive Shifts in the German Right-Wing Newspaper Junge Freiheit 1997–2019: A Computational Approach. German Politics 34(1): 128–155.
18. Nägel, C., Nivette, A., & Czymara, C. S. (2024). Do Jihadist Terrorist Attacks Cause Changes in Institutional Trust? A Multi-Site Natural Experiment. European Journal of Political Research 63(2): 411–432.
17. Czymara, C. S. (2024). Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany. Mass Communication and Society 27(1): 50–74.
16. Schmidt-Catran, A. W., & Czymara, C. S. (2023). Political Elite Discourses Polarize Attitudes toward Immigration Along Ideological Lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the 21st century. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(1): 85–109.
15. Breznau, N., & 100+ co-authors (2022). Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(44): 1–8.
14. Czymara, C. S., Dochow-Sondershaus, S., Drouhot, L. G., Şimşek, M., & Spörlein, C. (2023). Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014–2017. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(2): 535–553.
13. Hoogeveen, S., & 100+ co-authors (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain and Behavior 13(3): 237–283.
12. Czymara, C. S. & Mitchell, J. (2023). All Cops are Trusted? How Context and Time Shape Immigrants' Trust in the Police in Europe. Ethnic and Racial Studies 46(1): 72–96.
11. Langenkamp, A., Cano, T., & Czymara, C. S. (2022). My Home is my Castle? The Role of Living Arrangements on Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany. Frontiers in Sociology 6: 1–14.
10. Czymara, C. S. & van Klingeren, M. (2022). New perspective? Comparing Frame Occurrence in Online and Traditional News Media Reporting on Europe's 'Migration Crisis'. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 47(1): 136–162.
9. Czymara, C. S. & Eisentraut, M. (2020). 'A threat to the Occident'? Comparing human values of Muslim immigrants, Christian and non-religious natives in Western Europe. Frontiers in Sociology 5: 1–15.
8. Czymara, C. S., Langenkamp, A., & Cano, T. (2021). Cause for Concern: Gender Inequality in Experiencing the COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany. European Societies 23(S1): 68–81.
7. Schmidt-Catran, A. W., & Czymara, C. S. (2020). 'Did you read about Berlin?' Terrorist attacks, online media reporting and support for refugees in Germany. Soziale Welt 71(2–3): 305–337.
6. Czymara, C. S. (2021). Attitudes toward Refugees in Contemporary Europe: A Longitudinal Perspective on Cross-national Differences. Social Forces 99(3): 1306–1333.
5. Czymara, C. S. (2020). Propagated Preferences? Political Elite Discourses and Europeans' Openness toward Muslim Immigrants. International Migration Review 54(4): 1212–1237.
4. Czymara, C. S. & Dochow, S. (2018). Mass Media and Concerns about Immigration in Germany in the 21st Century: Individual-Level Evidence over 15 Years. European Sociological Review 34(4): 381–401.
3. Czymara, C. S. & Schmidt-Catran, A. W. (2018). Konfundierungen in Vignettenanalysen mit einzelnen d-effizienten Vignettenstichproben (Confounding in Vignette Studies with Single D-Efficient Vignette Samples). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 70(1): 93–103.
2. Czymara, C. S. & Schmidt-Catran, A. W. (2017). Refugees Unwelcome? Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany in the Course of Europe's 'Immigration Crisis'. European Sociological Review 33(6): 735–751.
1. Czymara, C. S. & Schmidt-Catran, A. W. (2016). Wer ist in Deutschland willkommen? Eine Vignettenanalyse zur Akzeptanz von Einwanderern (Who is welcome in Germany? A Vignette Study on the Acceptance of Immigrants). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 68(2): 1–35.
Doctoral Dissertation
Czymara, C. S. (2018). Discursive Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants: Political Parties and Mass Media as Contextual Sources of Threat Perceptions. Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.
Book Chapters
✓ indicates peer-reviewed work
1. Schmidt-Catran, A. W., & Czymara, C. S. (2026). Political Elite Discourses Polarize Attitudes toward Immigration Along Ideological Lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the 21st century. In: Laycock, J., Humphrey, M., & Faure, J. (eds.), Handbook of Ideology Analysis. Routledge. ✓
2. Lee, Y., Piñeyrúa, F., Czymara, C. S., & Weber, M. (2026). Linguistic Polarization in Minority Representation: Analyzing Parliamentary Speeches in Germany and the UK (1980–2021). In: Lorenz, J., Keijzer, M., & Bojanowski, M. (eds.), Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization, pp. 155–184. Springer VS. ✓
3. Langenkamp, A., & Czymara, C. S. (2026). Zuwanderung, Sorgen vor Islamismus und AfD-Wahl: Eine Studie auf Gemeindeebene in Sachsen. In: Melcher, R., Meißelbach, C., Weßels, B. (eds.), Subjektive Sicherheit und politische Kultur, pp. 351–373. Springer VS. ✓
4. Czymara, C. S., Dochow-Sondershaus, S., Drouhot, L. G., Şimşek, M., & Spörlein, C. (2024). Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014–2017. In: Deutschmann, E., Drouhot, L. G., Zuccotti, C. V., & Zagheni, E. (eds.), Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies, pp. 152–170. Routledge. ✓
5. Velásquez, P., Eger, M. A., Castañeda, H., Czymara, C. S., Ivarsflaten, E., Maxwell, R., Okamoto, D., & Wilkes, R. (2024). Processes and Pathways of Stigmatization and Destigmatization over Time. In: Yang, L. H., Eger, M. A., & Link, B. G. (eds.), Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion, pp. 179–200. MIT Press.
Preprints
Czymara, C. S. Public Responses to Jihadist Terrorism on Social Media. SocArXiv.