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
2021
McIlwaine, Neil; Foley, Aoife M.; Morrow, D. John; Kez, Dlzar Al; Zhang, Chongyu; Lu, Xi; Best, Robert J.
A state-of-the-art techno-economic review of distributed and embedded energy storage for energy systems Journal Article
In: Energy, vol. 229, pp. 120461, 2021, ISSN: 0360-5442.
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title = {A state-of-the-art techno-economic review of distributed and embedded energy storage for energy systems},
author = {Neil McIlwaine and Aoife M. Foley and D. John Morrow and Dlzar Al Kez and Chongyu Zhang and Xi Lu and Robert J. Best},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544221007106},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.120461},
issn = {0360-5442},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-08-15},
urldate = {2021-08-15},
journal = {Energy},
volume = {229},
pages = {120461},
abstract = {Renewable energy is projected to play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in realising the climate change goals. Large scale development of variable renewable energy, which is regarded as non-dispatchable, requires additional power system quality services such as voltage regulation, frequency regulation and inertial response. Energy storage provides an important means to supply these services but there are many uncertainties in terms of technology, market readiness, economics, and regulatory requirements. The aim of this study is to undertake a global state-of-the-art review of the techno-economic and regulatory status of energy storage and power quality services at the distribution level. The review will establish the global trends in electricity markets that have seen high levels of renewable energy penetration. The results of the investigation indicate that further research is required to qualify, quantify, and value the installation of mass energy storage particularly at the distribution level.},
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Puetz, Kyle; Davis, Andrew P.; Kinney, Alexander B.
Meaning structures in the world polity: A semantic network analysis of human rights terminology in the world's peace agreements Journal Article
In: Poetics, pp. 101598, 2021, ISSN: 0304-422X.
@article{Puetz2021,
title = {Meaning structures in the world polity: A semantic network analysis of human rights terminology in the world's peace agreements},
author = {Kyle Puetz and Andrew P. Davis and Alexander B. Kinney},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X21000887},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101598},
issn = {0304-422X},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-08-12},
urldate = {2021-08-12},
journal = {Poetics},
pages = {101598},
abstract = {We examine changes in the use of human rights language in peace agreement texts from 1990 to 2018. Existing research in world polity theory examines institutional change through the lens of increasing isomorphism, a lens that generally fails to appreciate qualitative transformations in the meaning of institutional concepts across time. As a corrective to this approach, we endorse a meaning-structure institutionalism that conceives institutional concepts in relational terms and use a method of textual analysis — semantic network analysis — to analyze and formally model the shifting meaning of human rights in peace agreement texts. We show that human rights language in peace agreements has undergone multiple qualitative shifts since its initial emergence in the mid-1980s. Specifically, the term human rights occupies a marginal position in peace agreement texts in the 1990s, is used in reference to and thus bridges multiple substantive themes in the 2000s, and, finally, inhabits a conceptual silo in the 2010s in the sense that it is associated with many concepts within but no concepts outside of a semantic community related to rights and democracy. We discuss implications for world polity theories of institutionalism that follow from our relational framework.},
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Bordignon, Frederique; Ermakova, Liana; Noël, Marianne
Over‐promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID ‐19 crisis Journal Article
In: 2021.
@article{Bordignon2021b,
title = {Over‐promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID ‐19 crisis},
author = {Frederique Bordignon and Liana Ermakova and Marianne Noël},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1411},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1411},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-07-21},
urldate = {2021-07-21},
organization = {Learned Publishing},
abstract = {The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit of their research and use a promotional discourse to catch the reader's attention. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted intensive research and has changed traditional publishing with the massive adoption of preprints by researchers. Our aim is to investigate whether the crisis and the ensuing scientific and economic competition have changed the lexical content of abstracts. We propose a comparative study of abstracts associated with preprints issued in response to the pandemic relative to abstracts produced during the closest pre-pandemic period. We show that with the increase (on average and in percentage) of positive words (especially effective) and the slight decrease of negative words, there is a strong increase in hedge words (the most frequent of which are the modal verbs can and may). Hedge words counterbalance the excessive use of positive words and thus invite the readers, who go probably beyond the ‘usual’ audience, to be cautious with the obtained results. The abstracts of preprints urgently produced in response to the COVID-19 crisis stand between uncertainty and over-promotion, illustrating the balance that authors have to achieve between promoting their results and appealing for caution.},
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Lavau, Sylvain
Qu’est-ce qu’un théorème (en pratique) ? Journal Article
In: Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances, 2021.
@article{Lavau2021,
title = {Qu’est-ce qu’un théorème (en pratique) ? },
author = {Sylvain Lavau},
url = {http://journals.openedition.org.inshs.bib.cnrs.fr/rac/22479},
doi = {https://doi-org.inshs.bib.cnrs.fr/10.4000/rac.22479},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-06-01},
journal = {Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances},
abstract = {Cet article défend les avantages d’une perspective sociologique en philosophie de la pratique mathématique. En s’appuyant sur la littérature en sociologie des sciences, il propose une approche de la pratique mathématique qui s’appuie sur la notion de communauté mathématique, et évalue le rôle de la notion de métamathématique dans le changement mathématique et dans les pratiques mathématiques stabilisées. Il s’appuie sur une étude de cas : l’émergence de la théorie du contrôle géométrique au début des années 1970 et les pratiques citationnelles associées à la communauté de la théorie du contrôle depuis le milieu des années 1990. Cette étude de cas montre que l’introduction d’outils géométriques dans la théorie du contrôle à la fin des années 1960 a induit un changement dans les vues métamathématiques que les théoricien·nes du contrôle avaient sur leurs objets. Je démontre ensuite comment l’appartenance à la communauté de la théorie du contrôle façonne la production et la réception des théorèmes de Štefan, Sussmann et Nagano. Interprétant le développement historique et les pratiques citationnelles de cette communauté à travers la perspective de la métamathématique, je conclus en discutant le rôle du théorème des orbites en théorie du contrôle, à la fois comme une étiquette désignant un certain contenu cognitif, et comme marqueur social d’appartenance à cette communauté.},
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Long trends on twitter: intertemporal clusters combining hashtags and terms on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science
Long trends on twitter: inter-temporal clusters combining hashtags and terms, for all tweets on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science from Jan. 2017 to dec. 2021, on a semester base. Query used to extract tweets: lang:en (Scientometrics OR “ScienceOfScience” OR “Science Of Science” OR “Altmetrics” OR “altmetric” OR “bibliometrics” OR “bibliometric” OR “citation metrics” […]
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Présenter CorTexT Manager en 2 minutes
Cortext Manager est une application web construite par des chercheurs et par des ingénieurs à destination de chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales, au plus près des questions portées par les chercheurs qui nous entourent et par notre communauté d’utilisateurs. Cette application web peut produire un grand nombre d’analyses différentes qui ont trait aux champs […]
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Analysis of the scientific production that mentioned the use of CorText Manager
There are two ways to understand what CorTexT Manager is. The first one is to look at what has been achieved in terms of methods, tools and therefore lines of code. The second one is studied below, by analyzing (here with CorTexT Manager) what academic users have published using… CorTexT Manager. Our study of the […]
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10 years of CorText Manager v2
It took us more than 10 years to come with CorText Manager version 2 as it is now! Behind the scenes CorText Manager begun with a first version in 2009. More than thirty contributors has worked directly or indirectly on the two versions, year after year. All the ideas, inspirations, all this accumulation of pieces […]
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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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