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 dashboard project 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

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PhD Theses

2014

Omodei, Elisa

Modeling the socio-semantic dynamics of scientific communities PhD Thesis

Ecole normale supérieure-ENS PARIS, 2014, (HAL Id : tel-01097702 , version 1).

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Levain, Alix-Kathleen

Vivre avec l’algue verte : Médiations, épreuves et signes PhD Thesis

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2014, (HAL Id : tel-01098682 , version 1).

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Technical Reports

2014

Tancoigne, Elise; Barbier, Marc; Cointet, Jean-Philippe; Richard, Guy

Les services écosystémiques dans la littérature scientifique : démarche d'exploration et résultats d'analyse : Rapport d'étude pour la phase d'exploration du métaprogramme EcoServ. Technical Report

2014, (hal-01157253 , version 1).

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Journal Articles

2013

Chavalarias, David; Cointet, Jean-Philippe

Phylomemetic patterns in science evolution - the rise and fall of scientific fields Journal Article

In: PloS one, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. e54847, 2013.

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