A research infrastructure for the social sciences & humanities
At Cortext, our goal is to empower researchers by promoting advanced qualitative-quantitative mixed methods. Our primary focus is on studies about the dynamics of science, technology and innovation, and about the roles of knowledge and expertise in societies.
We understand the move towards digital humanities and computational methods not as addressing a technological gap for the social sciences, but rather as entailing entirely new assemblages between its disciplines and those of modern statistics and computer sciences. And we work to tackle ever more complex research problems and deal with the profusion of new and diverse sources of information without losing sight of the situatedness and reflexivity required of studies of human societies.
Cortext is hosted by the LISIS research unit at Gustave Eiffel University, and was launched by French institutes IFRIS and INRAE, receiving their continued support.
Cortext Manager
Cortext Manager is our current main attraction, a publicly available web application providing data analysis methods curated and developed by our team of researchers and engineers.
Upload a textual corpus in order to analyse its discourse, names, categories, citations, places, dates etc, with methods for science/controversy/issue mapping, distant reading, document clustering, geo-spatial and network visualizations, and more.
You can jump straight to Cortext Manager and create an account, but we suggest taking a look at the Documentation and Tutorials as you start your journey.
Latest journal articles employing our instruments
Community Resilience Planning: What New Methods Reveal About the Formation and Transformation of a Field Journal Article
In: WIREs Climate Change, vol. 16, iss. 4, 2025, (The Sashimi method was used via the Python module. The Sashimi method has a modular architecture that allows it to be used independently of the Cortext Manager web application, which has not been used here.).
Digital Biomarkers for Parkinson Disease: Bibliometric Analysis and a Scoping Review of Deep Learning for Freezing of Gait Journal Article
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 27, 2025.
Data Landscape as the representation of nighttime urban dynamics Journal Article
In: New Design Ideas, vol. 9, iss. 1, pp. 227-247, 2025.
Frailty after Covid: tracing emergent shifts through heterogenous network mapping Journal Article
In: Social Theory & Health, vol. 23, iss. 1, 2025.
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