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Marcel Hebing, Prof. Dr.

Marcel is professor of data scientist at Digital Business University of Applied Sciences (DBU), founder of Impact Distillery (mStats DS GmbH), and associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

His background in computer science, sociology, and statistics brings a rare understanding of data quality issues in statistics, interpretation and machine learning scenarios.

Marcel’s work focuses on three pillars: (1) generating profound and actionable insights using statistical and machine learning methods, (2) building highly automated software infrastructures for data management and analysis, and (3) ensuring highest quality standards throughout the entire data life cycle, to offer a profound basis for social, political, and economic decision making.

Marcel’s most recent experience includes seven years of building software infrastructure for one of the world’s largest socio-economic datasets (Socio-economic Panel Study, SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany.

As an associate researcher at the research programme “Knowledge & Society” at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Marcel works on topics related to impact of science and research integrity.

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Books

Hebing, M. (2016). A Metadata-Driven Approach to Panel Data Management and Its Application in DDI on Rails: Dissertation. Bamberg: opus. Publication details

Journal articles and conference proceedings

Fecher, B., Hebing, M., Laufer, M., Pohle, J., Sofsky, F. (2023). Friend or foe? Exploring the implications of large language models on the science system. AI & Society, 38. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01791-1 Publication details

Fecher, B., Hebing, M., Laufer, M., Pohle, J., & Sofsky, F. (2023). Friend or foe? Exploring the implications of large language models on the science system. AI & Soc. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01791-1 Publication details

Fecher, B., & Hebing, M. (2021). How do researchers approach societal impact? PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254006 Publication details

Fecher, B., Fräßdorf, M., Hebing, M., & Wagner, G. G. (2017). Replikationen, Reputation und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis. Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 68(3). Publication details

Linek, S. B., Fecher, B., Friesike, S., & Hebing, M. (2017). Data sharing as social dilemma: Influence of the researcher’s personality. PLoS ONE, 12(8). Publication details

Fecher, B., Friesike, S., Hebing, M., & Linek, S. (2017). A reputation economy: how individual reward considerations trump systemic arguments for open access to data. Palgrave Communications, 3. Publication details

Hebing, M., Wunderlich, L., & Ebert, J. (2017). Rethinking Academic Publications: Developing an open-source- framework for a multi-layer narrative in online publishing. xCoAx Proceedings of the conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, 2017, 29–36. Publication details

Fecher, B., Friesike, S., & Hebing, M. (2015). What Drives Academic Data Sharing? PLOS ONE, 10(2). Publication details

Book contributions and chapters

Schmitz, A., Yanenko, O. & Hebing, M. (2012). Identifying Artificial Actors in E-Dating: A Probabilistic Segmentation Based on Interactional Pattern Analysis. (pp. 319-327) Heidelberg: Springer. Publication details

Working paper

Fecher, B. & Hebing, M. (2021). How do researchers achieve societal impact? Results of an empirical survey among researchers in Germany. SSOAR. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254006 Publication details

Fecher, B., Friesike, S., Hebing, M., Linek, S., & Sauermann, A. (2015). A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing. DIW Berlin Discussion Paper, No. 1454. Publication details

Fecher, B., Friesike S. & Hebing, M. (2014). What drives academic data sharing? SOEPpapers, 655. Publication details

Fecher, B., Friesike, S., & Hebing, M. (2014). What drives academic data sharing? Working Paper Series des Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten, No. 236. Publication details

Hebing, M., Griese, F., Napieraj, J., Pahl, M., Stolpe, C. & Wagner, G.G. (2014). Zur Struktur von empirischen Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftsforschern: ein Überblick über die Ergebnisse der SOEP-Nutzerbefragungen. SOEPpapers, 708. Publication details

Wagner, G.G., Engelmann, M., Goebel, J., Griese, F., Hebing, M., Napieraj, J., Pahl, M., Stolpe, C., Wimmer, M., Eickelpasch, A., & Schupp, J. (2014). “Citizen Science” auf Basis des SOEP: Entwicklung und erste Anwendung eines Software-Tools für “Bürgerdialoge”. SOEPpapers, 666. Publication details

Barkow, I., Block, W., Greenfield, J., Gregory, A., Hebing, M., Hoyle, L., & Zenk-Möltgen, W. (2013). Generic Longitudinal Business Process Model. DDI Working Paper Series Longitudinal Best Practices, 5. DOI: 10.3886/DDILongitudinal05 Publication details

Other publications

Fecher, B., Hebing, M., Laufer, M., Pohle, J., Sofsky, F. (2023). Friend or Foe? Exploring the Implications of Large Language Models on the Science System. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Publication details

Martin Schmidt & Marcel Hebing (2021). The 7 Tasks in Data Science Management – How to guide your team and improve data-driven business cases. Towards Data Science. Publication details

Fecher, B., Sokolovska, N., & Hebing, M. (2019). Teaching Impact is Key to Make Science Socially Relevant. Generation R. Publication details

Hebing, M., Ebert, J., & Schildhauer, T. (2017). Startup Ökosysteme. Eine Studie des Alexander von Humboldt Instituts für Internet und Gesellschaft. Publication details

Hebing, M., Wunderlich, L., & Ebert, J. (2017). Form follows function? Challenging the academic narrative. Digital Society Blog. Publication details

Ebert, J., Wunderlich, L., & Hebing, M. (2017). Data, Information, Interaction. A multi-layer approach in online publishing. Digital Society Blog. Publication details

Hebing, M. & Goebel, J. (2017). The SOEP Metadata Documentation System: paneldata.org. Publication details

Hebing, M. & Goebel, J. (2016). The New SOEP Metadata Documentation System: Paneldata.org. Publication details

Fecher, B., Frisike S., Hebing, M., & Linek S. (2015). Reputation instead of obligation: forging new policies to motivate academic data sharing. The Impact Blog. Publication details

Fecher, B., Frisike S., Hebing, M., Linek S., & Sauermann A. (2015). Academia is a reputation economy — data-sharing policies should take incentives into account. The Impact Blog. Publication details

Goebel, J. & Hebing, M. (2015). The New SOEP Metadata Portal. Publication details

Lectures and presentations

Create Impact with Data - Know Your Audience and Communicate Well
GOR 2021. German Society for Online Research. Online, Online, Germany: 08.09.2021 Further information

Marcel Hebing, Larissa Wundelich

Rethinking Academic Publications: Developing an Open-source Framework for a Multi-layer Narrative in Online Publishing
5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx). xCoAx. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal: 06.07.2017

Marcel Hebing, Larissa Wunderlich, Julia Ebert

Vorstellung der Startup-Benchmarking GER 2020: Globale Start-up-Ökosysteme – Wo steht Deutschland?
Zeit Wirtschaftsforum. Zeit. Hauptkirche St. Michaelis, Hamburg, Germany: 03.11.2016

Thomas Schildhauer, Marcel Hebing

Data Availability and Reuse – Results of An Empirical Study Among German Researchers
The 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). The organizing committee - Bart Meuleman, Annelies Blom, Eldad Davidov, Gudbjorg Andrea Jonsdottir, Nick Allum, Patrick Sturgis. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland: 13.07.2015

Benedikt Fecher, Marcel Hebing, Sascha Frisike

Organisation of events

1st Pop-Up Lab: Inclusive AI? The challenges of automated tools in HR
From 24.08.2020 to 26.08.2020. Online, Berlin, Germany (International) Further information

Shlomi Hod, Georg von Richthofen, Daniela Dicks, Deniz Erden, Juliane Henn, Alexander Pirang, Matthias Spielkamp, Marcel Hebing, Kai Gärtner, Wolfgang Schulz, Theresa Züger

Impact School 2019
30.09.2019. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Impact Distillery (mStats DS GmbH), Leibniz Research Alliance Open (International) Further information

Nataliia Sokolovska, Marcel Hebing, Benedikt Fecher

Impact School 2017
From 29.11.2017 to 01.12.2017. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Marcel Hebing (International) Further information

Marcel Hebing, Benedikt Fecher