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 projectCortext 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

Rikap, Cecilia

Becoming an intellectual monopoly by relying on the national innovation system: the State Grid Corporation of China's experience Journal Article

In: Research Policy, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 104472, 2022, ISSN: 0048-7333.

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Maniquiz-Redillas, Marla; Robles, Miguel Enrico; Cruz, Gil; Reyes, Nash Jett; Kim, Lee-Hyung

First Flush Stormwater Runoff in Urban Catchments: A Bibliometric and Comprehensive Review Journal Article

In: Hydrology, vol. 9, pp. 63, 2022.

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Calvo, Diana C.; Luna, Hector J.; Arango, Jineth A.; Torres, Cesar I.; Rittmann, Bruce E.

Determining global trends in syngas fermentation research through a bibliometric analysis Journal Article

In: Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 307, pp. 114522, 2022, ISSN: 0301-4797.

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Taxt, Randi Elisabeth; Robinson, Douglas K. R.; Schoen, Antoine; Fløysand, Arnt

The embedding of universities in innovation ecosystems: The case of marine research at the University of Bergen Journal Article

In: Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol. 76, iss. 1, pp. 42–60, 2022, ISSN: 0029-1951.

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