Sebastian Schultheiß

Address

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Department of Information, Media and Communication
Finkenau 35
22081 Hamburg
Germany
Room 270

Contact Information

Call: +49.40.428 75-3642

Email: sebastian.schultheiss@haw-hamburg.de

Sebastian Schultheiß

Research Assistant

Sebastian Schultheiß, M.A. is a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Information at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on user studies on information behavior. In cooperation with the Humboldt University of Berlin, Sebastian is also working on his doctoral research project on how search engine marketing influences user knowledge gain.

Sebastian received his M.A. degree in Information, Media, Library in 2019 and his B.A. in Library and Information Management in 2016 from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Before his studies, he did an apprenticeship as a Specialist in Media and Information Services at the German National Library of Economics (ZBW).

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

Häußler, H.; Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2023). Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24802

Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D.; Mach, S.; Yagci, N. (2023). Query sampler: generating query sets for analyzing search engines using keyword research tools. PeerJ Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1421

Lewandowski, D., & Schultheiß, S. (2022). Public awareness and attitudes towards search engine optimization. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2022.2056507; Preprint

Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2021). ‘Outside the industry, nobody knows what we do’: SEO as seen by search engine optimizers and content providers. Journal of Documentation 77(2), 542-557. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2020-0127

Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2021). How users’ knowledge of advertisements influences their viewing and selection behaviour in search engines. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 72(3), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24410

Lewandowski, D.; Sünkler, S.; Schultheiß, S.; Häußler, H.; Spree, U.; Behnert, C. (2021). The Search Studies Group at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Datenbank Spektrum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-021-00375-x

Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2021). Misplaced trust? The relationship between trust, ability to identify commercially influenced results, and search engine preference. Journal of Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211014157

Lewandowski, D.; Sünkler, S.; Schultheiß, S. (2020). Studies on Search: Designing Meaningful IIR Studies on Commercial Search Engines. Datenbank Spektrum 20(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-020-00331-1

Schultheiß, S.; Linhart, A.; Behnert, C.; Rulik, I.; Lewandowski, D. (2020). Known-item searches and search tactics in library search systems: Results from four transaction log analysis studies. Journal of Academic Librarianship 46(5), article 102202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102202

Schultheiß, S., Sünkler, S., & Lewandowski, D. (2018). We still trust in Google, but less than 10 years ago: an eye-tracking study. Information Research 23(3). Preprint

Kerkmann, F., Sünkler, S., & Schultheiß, S. (2017). Die Suche nach dem „Wie…“ – Tutorials als Gegenstand der Suche. Wissenschaft & Praxis 68(1), 58–66.

Articles in proceedings

Schultheiß, S. (2023). How search engine marketing influences user knowledge gain. Development and empirical testing of an information search behavior model. CHIIR '23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578297; Preprint

Schultheiß, S.; Sünkler, S.; Yagci, N.; Sygulla, D.; von Mach, S.; Lewandowski, D.; (2023). Simplify your Search Engine Research : wie das Result Assessment Tool (RAT) Studien auf der Basis von Suchergebnissen unterstützt. In: Proceedings des 17. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2023), 429-437. PDF proceedings; PDF article

Schultheiß, S.; Sünkler, S.; Yagci, N.; Sygulla, D.; von Mach, S.; Lewandowski, D.; (2023). Result Assessment Tool (RAT): A Software Toolkit for Conducting Studies Based on Search Results. In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.972

Sünkler, S.; Yagci, N.; Sygulla, D.; von Mach, S.; Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D.; (2023). Result Assessment Tool (RAT): Software-Toolkit für die Durchführung von Studien auf der Grundlage von Suchergebnissen. In: Proceedings des 17. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft (ISI 2023), 438-444. PDF proceedings ; PDF article

Häußler, H.; Schultheiß, S.; Sünkler, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2022). From knowing to showing : Using marking tasks to demonstrate information literacy in practice. 2022 ASIS&T 24-Hour Conference. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6406802

Lewandowski, D., Schultheiß, S., Sünkler, S. (2022). Einflüsse auf die Ergebnisse kommerzieller Suchmaschinen: Modellbildung und empirische Ergebnisse. Informationswissenschaft im Wandel. Wissenschaftliche Tagung 2022 (IWWT22), Düsseldorf. PDF proceedings; PDF article

Schultheiß, S.; Häußler, H.; Lewandowski, D. (2022). Does Search Engine Optimization come along with high-quality content?: A comparison between optimized and non-optimized health-related web pages. CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 123–134. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505811; Preprint; YouTube

Sünkler, S., Yagci, N., Sygulla, D., von Mach, S., Schultheiß, S. Lewandowski, D. (2022). Result Assessment Tool: Software zur Durchführung von Studien auf der Basis von Suchergebnissen. Informationswissenschaft im Wandel. Wissenschaftliche Tagung 2022 (IWWT22), Düsseldorf. PDF proceedings; PDF article

Schultheiß, S.; Lewandowski, D. (2021). (Un)bekannte Akteure auf der Suchergebnisseite? Ein Vergleich zwischen selbst eingeschätzter und tatsächlich vorhandener Suchmaschinenkompetenz deutscher InternetnutzerInnen. In: T. Schmidt, C. Wolff (Hrsg.): Information between Data and Knowledge. Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021), 218-246. https://www.doi.org/10.5283/epub.44946

Schultheiß, S. (2021). Der Einfluss des Verständnisses von Suchmaschinenwerbung auf das Rechercheverhalten am PC und am mobilen Endgerät: Eine Nutzerstudie [Extended Abstract]. In: T. Schmidt, C. Wolff (Hrsg.): Information between Data and Knowledge. Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021), 461-467. https://www.doi.org/10.5283/EPUB.44964

Articles in magazines

Schultheiß, S., & Lewandowski, D. (2021). Google search results—They’re all the same, right?. Information Matters. Vol.1, Issue 11. https://informationmatters.org/2021/11/google-search-results-theyre-all-the-same-right/

Open data

Schultheiß, S., & Lewandowski, D. (2022). Data set of a representative online survey on search engines with a focus on search engine optimization (SEO): a cross-sectional study. F1000Research, 11(376). https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.109662.2

Education

  1. 2022–present

    Doctoral Candidate

    Humboldt University of Berlin
  2. 2019

    Master of Arts Information, Media, Library

    Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
  3. 2016

    Bachelor of Arts Library and Information Management

    Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

Professional Experience

  1. 2019 until today
    Research Assistant
    Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
  2. 2010-2013
    Training as Specialist in Media and Information Services (FaMI)
    ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Awards

  • 2021
    Gerhard Lustig Award for the best Master Thesis in Information Science 2017–2020
    Hochschulverband für Informationswissenschaft (HI)
  • 2018
    SUMA Scholarship
    SUMA-EV
  • 2017
    Scholarship to attend the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2017
    BI-International