Research Interests

Methodology

Mathematical Statistics

Political participation

Network analysis

Computational Social Science

Text Mining

Selected Publications

Kmetty, Z., Stefkovics, Á. (2025). Validating a willingness to share measure of a vignette experiment using real-world behavioral data. Scientific Reports 15, 9319 (2025).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92349-2

Chen, Y., Kmetty, Z., Iñiguez, G., & Omodei, E. (2025). The public that engages invisibly: what visible engagement fails to capture in online political communication. Communication Methods and Measures, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2542725

Kmetty, Z., Stefkovics, Á., Számely, J., Deng, D., Kellner, A., Pauló, E., ... & Koltai, J. (2024). Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms. Information, Communication & Society, 28(7), 1324-1349.

Breuer, J., Kmetty, Z., Haim, M., & Stier, S. (2022). User-centric approaches for collecting Facebook data in the ‘post-API age’: Experiences from two studies and recommendations for future research. Information, Communication & Society, 1-20.

Kmetty, Z., & Stefkovics, Á. (2022). Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: Evidence from an online experiment. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(5), 659-672.

Szabó, G., Kmetty, Z., & K. Molnár, E. (2021). Politics and Incivility in the Online Comments: What is Beyond the Norm-Violation Approach?. International Journal Of Communication, 15, 26.

 Kostadinova, T., & Kmetty, Z. (2019). Corruption and political participation in Hungary: Testing models of civic engagement. East European Politics and Societies, 33(3), 555-578.

Albert, F., Dávid, B., Kmetty, Z., Kristóf, L., Róbert, P., & Szabó, A. (2018). Mapping the Post-communist Class Structure: Findings from a New Multidimensional Hungarian Class Survey. East European Politics and Societies, 32(3), 544-565.

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Research Projects

2024-2026        Digital Political Footprints

National Research and Innovation Office. K147329

Principal Investigator

2021-2023        Digital Data through Data Donation

ELKH Flagship project

Principal Investigator

2021-2023        Online representation of COVID-19 and vaccines using NLP tools

Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory [MILAB]

Principal Investigator

2019-2024        Social history analysis of the press between 1945 and 1989 with the methods of natural language processing (NLP)

National Research and Innovation Office. FK131826

Senior Researcher

2018-2020        Text analytics and social media research

National Research and Innovation Office. FK128981

Principal Investigator

2018-2020        STEPIN - Using Living Labs to roll out Sustainable Strategies for Energy Poor Individuals

H2020 Grant agreement ID: 785125

Lead researcher, WP leader

2016-2018        Explaining welfare attitudes: general moral principles, issue framing and survey design

National Research and Innovation Office. K120070

Researcher

2016-2018        ISSP – Networks and resources

National Research and Innovation Office. K119565

Researcher

2015-2017        NATCONSUMERS

H2020. Grant agreement ID: 657672

Project Coordinator

2013-2018        Crisis and Social Innovation

MTA Research Group

Senior Researcher

2012-2015        Role of cleavages, values and identity in the development of Hungarian party system, 2000-2014

National Research and Innovation Office. K105445

Researcher

2012-2014        Disadvantaged people access to the social system

TÁMOP 5.4.1-12

Researcher

2012-2013        The complex analysis of Red Sludge Catastrophic

Hungarian Academy of Science

Researcher