Profile André Bittermann

Dr. André Bittermann

Senior Researcher

+49 (0) 651 201-4682

 

  • since 10/2024 senior researcher in "Metascience" and "Information and Retrieval Services"
  • at ZPID since 2016, from 01/2021 to 09/2024 acting head of ZPID's "Big Data in Psychology" research department
  • PhD in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) 2020, Trier University, Germany

 

Research interests

Computational Psychology, Text as Data, Bibliometrics, Metascience

 

Selected Publications | Conference Papers

Selected Publications

  • Müller, S. M., & Bittermann, A. (in press). The emotional climate of academia: Exploring social media data as an indicator of well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies.

  • Bittermann, A., & Fischer, A. (2024). Natural Language Processing in Psychology. Zeitschrift Für Psychologie, 232(3), 143–146.   https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000568

  • Bittermann, A., Petrule, C., Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., Hofmann, S. G., Rief, W., & The PsyChange Network (2025). Research on translational psychological treatment: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Advance online publication.   https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000256

  • Bittermann, A., McNamara, D., Simonsmeier, B. A., & Schneider, M. (2023). The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: A Bibliometric Analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 35, 58.   https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09775-9

  • Burgard, T. & Bittermann, A. (2023). Reducing Literature Screening Workload with Machine Learning. Systematic Review of Tools and their Performance. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 231(1), 3-15.   https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000509

  • Bittermann, A. & Rieger, J. (2022). Finding Scientific Topics in Continuously Growing Text Corpora. In Arman Cohan et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (pp. 7–18), Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.  https://aclanthology.org/2022.sdp-1.2/

  • Jonas, M., Bittermann, A., Chasiotis, A., & Rosman, T. (2022). To Have the Best Interest at Heart: Analyzing the Match Between Laypersons' Interests and Publication Activity in Psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:899430.   https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.899430

  • Bittermann, A., Batzdorfer, V., Müller, S. M., & Steinmetz, H. (2021). Mining Twitter to detect hotspots in psychology. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229(1), 3–14.  https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000437

  • Richter, J., Bittermann, A., Christiansen, H., Krämer, L. V., Kuhberg-Lasson, V., & Schneider, S. (2021). Der Forschungsbeitrag der deutschsprachigen Klinischen Psychologie zu Themen der psychischen Störungen und Psychotherapie. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 49(2), 113–127.  https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000582

  • Bittermann, A. (2020). Die Identifikation psychologischer Forschungsthemen mit Topic Modeling. Dissertation. Universität Trier, Fachbereich I – Psychologie.  https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-d9d9-032d

  • Bittermann, A., Greiner, N. & Fischer, A. (2020). Unterscheiden sich die Forschungsinteressen von Frauen und Männern in der Psychologie? Eine Analyse von PSYNDEX-Einträgen über einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren. Psychologische Rundschau, 71(2), 103-110.
    https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000482

  • Bittermann, A. (2019).  Development of a user-friendly app for exploring and analyzing research topics in psychology. In G. Catalano, C. Daraio, M. Gregori, H. F. Moed & G. Ruocco (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (2634–2635). Rom: Edizioni Efesto. 
    http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2521

  • Bittermann, A. & Klos, E. M. (2019).  Ist die psychologische Forschung durchlässig für aktuelle gesellschaftliche Themen? Eine szientometrische Analyse am Beispiel Flucht und Migration mithilfe von Topic Modeling. Psychologische Rundschau, 70 (4), 239–249.  https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000426.

  • Bittermann, A. & Fischer, A. (2018). How to identify hot topics in psychology using topic modeling. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226, 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000318

Conference Papers

  • Bittermann, A. (2025, February). Towards a Computational Psychology of Science. Workshop on Bridging Approaches in the Sciences Studying Science, Munich, Germany.

  • Lauer, T.*, Bittermann, A.*, & Peters, F. (2024, September). Researchers as Influencers in Academic Social Networks and Their Role in the #TwitterMigration. Vortrag auf dem Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 16.-19. September 2024, Wien, Österreich. *Geteilte Erstautorenschaft.

  • Petrule, C., Bittermann, A., Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., & Rief, W. (2024, September). The Research Field of Translational Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Analysis. Vortrag auf dem Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 16.-19. September 2024, Wien, Österreich.

  • Trillitzsch, K., Bittermann, A., Chasiotis, A., Dehnhard, I., & Kerwer, M. (2024, September). PSYNDEX reloaded: Von der Referenzdatenbank zum Dashboard für Forschungsmonitoring. Präsentation auf dem 53. Kongress der DGPs, 16.-19.09.2024, Wien, Österreich.

  • Bittermann, A. (2023, December). Doing Research With Social Media Data in Psychology. Research Colloquium, Department Psychology of Sociotechnical Systems, TU Braunschweig. PsychArchives   http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13938

  • Bittermann, A.*, Lauer, T.*, & Peters, F. (2023, October). A New Home for Scholarly Communication? Shedding Light on the Academic #TwitterMigration. Paper presented at METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research, London, UK.  http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13562 *shared first-authorship.

  • Bittermann, A., Müller, S. M., & Langer, P. (2023, May). Keeping Up with Psychological Science: PsychTopics – A Computational Assistance Tool for Researchers, Students, Journalists, and Policy-Makers [Conference presentation]. 4th Symposium on Big Data and Research Syntheses in Psychology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

  • Petrule, C.*, Bittermann, A.*, Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., & Rief, W. (2023, October). Exploring Fragmentation in Emerging Fields of Research. Paper presented at METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research, London, UK.  https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13557 *shared first-authorship.

  • Müller, S. M. & Bittermann, A. (2023, October). Can 280 Characters Speak for Researchers? Leveraging Twitter Data for Unobtrusive Measurement of Academics’ Well-Being. Paper presented at METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research, London, UK.  http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.13561.

  • Schneider, M., Bittermann, A., McNamara, D., & Simonsmeier, B. A. (2023, August). Studies on Prior Knowledge in Learning: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis. Paper presented at 20th Biennial EARLI Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.

  • Müller, S. M., Kotzur, M., & Bittermann, A. (2023, July). An Approach for Researcher Identification on Twitter Without the Need for External Data [Poster Presentation]. 19th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

  • Petrule, C., Bittermann, A., Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., & Rief, W. (2023, July). Leveraging Machine Learning for Bibliometric Analysis of Emerging Fields [Poster Presentation]. 19th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

  • Petrule, C., Bittermann, A., Ritter, V., Haberkamp, A., & Rief, W. (2023, May). The Merits of Screening Automation for Bibliometric Analyses: The Case of Translational Psychotherapy. 4th Symposium on Big Data and Research Syntheses in Psychology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Bittermann, A. (2022, November). Reproducible Text Analysis with Topic Modeling. Demonstration at "Practices and Tools of Open Science" lecture series, online.  http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8382

  • Bittermann, A. & Rieger, J. (2022, October). Finding Scientific Topics in Continuously Growing Text Corpora. Paper presented at 3rd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing, 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Gyeongju, Repulic of Korea.  https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8250

  • Mueller, S., Bittermann, A., & Burgard, T. (2022, September). Fostering Open Science in Psychology With Free Tools and Services. Demonstration at 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany.

  • Rieger, J. & Bittermann, A. (2022, September). Monitoring Consistent Topics in Continuously Growing Scientific Text Corpora. Paper presented at Statistische Woche 2022, Münster, Germany.

  • Bittermann, A., Batzdorfer, V., & Steinmetz, H. (2021, May). Twitter as a Research Tool and Object in Psychology: Applications in Scientometrics and Distributional Semantics. Presentation at Research Synthesis & Big Data Conference 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4844

  • Bittermann, A. (2020, November). Wissenschaftskommunikation und Big Data: Wie behalten wir den Überblick in der Informationsflut? Beitrag bei Book A Scientist, 10. November 2020, online.

  • Bittermann, A. (2019, September).
    Development of a user-friendly app for exploring and analyzing research topics in psychology. Poster presented at the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI2019), Rome, Italy.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2559

  • Bittermann, A. (2018, Juni).
    Extracting latent topics in large text corpora by taking metadata into account: Do empirical studies address psychological research topics differently than nonempirical studies do? Paper presented at Big Data in Psychology 2018 conference, Trier, Germany
    https://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.837

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