Cortext platform
At Cortext, our goal is to empower researchers in the social sciences and humanities 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. 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 service providing data analysis methods curated and developed by our team of researchers and engineers.
You 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 strongly suggest taking a look at the Documentation and Tutorials as you start your journey.
Latest journal articles employing our instruments
Journal Articles
2022
dos Santos Carvalho, Lidiane; de Lima, Clóvis Ricardo Montenegro; de Macêdo, Wânia Cristina Morais
A comunicação científica em tempos de pandemia do covid-19 Journal Article
In: Asklepion, iss. 2, pp. 141-161, 2022.
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title = {A comunicação científica em tempos de pandemia do covid-19},
author = {Lidiane dos Santos Carvalho and Clóvis Ricardo Montenegro de Lima and Wânia Cristina Morais de Macêdo},
url = {https://www.asklepionrevista.info/asklepion/article/view/59},
doi = {10.21728/asklepion.2022v2nesp.p141-161},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-11-18},
urldate = {2022-11-18},
booktitle = {Asklepion: Informação em Saúde},
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pages = {141-161},
address = {Rio de Janeiro},
abstract = {Este estudo investiga mudanças, melhorias e inovações ocorridas na comunicação científica no campo da saúde durante a pandemia provocada pela COVID-19. Os procedimentos metodológicos usados consistiram em uma adaptação da estratégia de revisão sistemática empregada nas ciências naturais denominada PICO e a fonte de dados foi a Literatura publicada na Web of Science. Os resultados destes estudos indicam melhorias e inovações que discutem a credibilidade da informação científica, a revisão por pares e os sistemas de informação científica, bem como as suas formas de compartilhamento. Conclui-se que o modo como se valida a informação científica está sofrendo modificações e coloca em cena pelo menos dois problemas a serem discutidos: o primeiro deles relacionado à validade da ciência, o segundo de ruptura com o modelo de acesso baseado pautado nas formas tradicionais de agregação de capital das grandes editoras.},
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Herrera-Pavo, Miguel Ángel; Navarrete, Verónica Orellana; Rodríguez, José Daniel Espinosa; Espinoza-Weaver, Yadhira
Participatory design of a Pedagogical Model for the Ecuadorian Educational System Journal Article
In: Podium, vol. 42, pp. 93–116, 2022, ISSN: 1390-5473.
@article{Herrera-Pavo2022b,
title = {Participatory design of a Pedagogical Model for the Ecuadorian Educational System},
author = {Miguel Ángel Herrera-Pavo and Verónica Orellana Navarrete and José Daniel Espinosa Rodríguez and Yadhira Espinoza-Weaver},
url = {http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2588-09692022000200093&nrm=iso},
doi = {10.31095/podium.2022.42.6},
issn = {1390-5473},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-11-15},
urldate = {2022-11-15},
journal = {Podium},
volume = {42},
pages = {93–116},
publisher = {scielo},
abstract = {The need for a pedagogical model consistent with the foundations of the latest educational reforms and the public policy developed by the Ministry of Education in Ecuador prompted the reflection and collaborative construction included in this work. As a result, between June 2020 and January 2021, with the participation of teachers, critical actors in the education system, and decision-makers, a virtual co-design process was developed that began with a reflective dialogue and allowed the creation and subsequent discussion of a prototype, as well as the design of a set of strategies for its implementation. Based on the development of the joint activity, the resulting pedagogical model merged public policy's interests with teachers' contextualized vision and proved to be open and flexible enough to guide the teaching and learning processes in public educational institutions throughout the country.},
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Castiglione, Paloma; Sarthou, Nerina
Ciencia y farmacéuticas en Argentina: ¿quiénes financian las investigaciones en salud en la Provincia de Buenos Aires? Journal Article
In: Sudamérica : Revista de Ciencias Sociales , vol. 17, pp. 243-271, 2022, ISSN: 2314-1174.
@article{Castiglione2022,
title = {Ciencia y farmacéuticas en Argentina: ¿quiénes financian las investigaciones en salud en la Provincia de Buenos Aires?},
author = {Paloma Castiglione and Nerina Sarthou},
url = {https://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/sudamerica/article/view/6292},
issn = {2314-1174},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-11-07},
journal = {Sudamérica : Revista de Ciencias Sociales },
volume = {17},
pages = {243-271},
school = {Facultad de Humanidades - Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata},
abstract = {La participación de actores internacionales en la investigación en salud es clave para entender qué ciencia se genera y qué rol cumple el Estado nacional en su promoción y regulación. La provincia de Buenos Aires cuenta con un Registro Provincial de Investigaciones en Salud que abarca el período 2009-2018, de allí que, combinando un enfoque cuantitiativo y cualitativo, este artículo presenta los resultados surgidos al explorar los tipos de actores que patrocinan las investigaciones registradas a nivel provincial. El análisis demostró que la participacion de corporaciones farmaceúticas extranjeras en el financiamiento de ensayos clínicos es predominante. Este financiamiento se orientó mayormente al estudio y/o tratamiento de enfermedades que responden a intereses específicos de las entidades mencionadas, aunque no necesariamente a aquellas problemáticas definidas como prioritarias por la política pública en investigación en salud; afectando la capacidad del Estado para responder a las necesidades sanitarias de la sociedad argentina.},
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Toffolini, Quentin; Jeuffroy, Marie-Hélène
On-farm experimentation practices and associated farmer-researcher relationships: a systematic literature review Journal Article
In: Agronomy for Sustainable Development, vol. 42, iss. 2022, no. 114, 2022.
@article{Toffolini2022,
title = {On-farm experimentation practices and associated farmer-researcher relationships: a systematic literature review},
author = {Quentin Toffolini and Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-022-00845-w},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-022-00845-w},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-11-01},
urldate = {2022-11-01},
journal = {Agronomy for Sustainable Development},
volume = {42},
number = {114},
issue = {2022},
abstract = {The convergence among the rise of digital technologies, the attention paid to the localized issues of transitions in practices toward agroecology, and the emergence of new open innovation models are renewing and reviving the scientific community’s interest in on-farm experimentation (OFE). This form of experimentation is claimed to be enhanced by digital tools as well as being an enabler of production of credible, salient, and legitimate science insofar as it embraces a farmer-centric perspective. However, the forms of research in which some experimental activities on farms are anchored vary greatly, notably with regard to the actual forms that interventions on farms take, the legitimacy of the actors involved and their roles, or the observations and instruments applied for interpretation. We propose a systematic review of the literature and an analytical framework in order to better understand this diversity of practices behind on-farm experimentation. Our analysis segregated six major publication clusters based on themes appearing in titles and abstracts. These themes guided a more in-depth analysis of representative articles, from which we identified seven types of OFE practices that are described and discussed here with regard to the knowledge targeted, roles of the various actors, and on-farm experimental space. Our typology provides an original basis for supporting reflexivity and building alignment between the above-mentioned dimensions and the ways in which new tools can support the experimental process.},
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Analysis of the scientific production that mentioned the use of CorText Manager
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10 years of CorText Manager v2
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RISIS Training: Thematic and spatial analysis of technologies using CorText Manager and RISIS patent database
One of the best CorText Manager training courses was organized and offered by the RISIS project. Here is the program of this training which lasted 3 days: Monday 08/11/21 14h-16h30: Session 1 Session 1a: Introduction on patent analysis (60’) Introductory lecture session • Welcoming introduction (Philippe Larédo) 5’ • Type of patents documents (Antoine Schoen) […]
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Early 2021 CorText Manager training sessions
CorText organized a series of training workshops on CorText Manager and its methods in January 2021! These workshops were imagined as a staircase with three successive steps : Session 1: Introduction Session 2: Method comparisons Session 3: Research questions and work on user’s corpus For these sessions, the subject chosen for the demonstrations and exercises […]
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Seminar and workshop during the Summer School of PPGCI IBICT UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro – 03/2020
In March 2020, the LabEx SITES post-doctoral researcher, Ale Abdo, traveled to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to organize two trainings on textual analysis and on a new method he developed and integrated at the CorText Infrastructure, as well as to participate in discussions on open and citizen science in Brazil, including the discussion […]
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A CorText Manager distance training session in the framework of the nanocellulose project – Grenoble, June 2020
For complementing the RISIS access requested (to Leiden publications DB and RISIS patent DB) by the GAEL laboratory (UMR INRAE, CNRS, UGA, INPG), in the framework of a research project on nanocellulose, the CorText team has provided , in June and July 2020, an advanced training on the use of CorText. After setting up of […]
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