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
Elie, Luc; Granier, Caroline; Rigot, Sandra
The different types of renewable energy finance: A Bibliometric analysis Journal Article
In: Energy Economics, no. 104997, 2021.
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title = {The different types of renewable energy finance: A Bibliometric analysis},
author = {Luc Elie and Caroline Granier and Sandra Rigot},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104997},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Energy Economics},
number = {104997},
abstract = {This article surveys the academic research dedicated to the different types of renewable energy finance. We conduct a bibliometric analysis based on the widely used database Web of Science, covering the period of 1992 to 2018. We generate a bottom-up clustering of academic articles using network analysis tools, leading us to identify 8 main clusters of publications defined by their focus on specific types of finance and their geographical and technological scope. Our main line of research is to observe the discrepancy between the importance of the funding modes in reality and their share in the literature. The critical appraisal of our results highlights that the literature does not reflect the diversity of renewable energy finance. Most studies focus on market-based policy instruments used to support renewable energy development in developed countries. Conversely, few studies of direct financing flows from the public and private sectors were found, while private sources provide an important part of renewable energy investment globally. Furthermore, the literature generally focuses on mature renewable electricity technologies (solar and wind). Our dynamic analysis reveals that private investment is an emerging subject. Overall, our result reveals significant room for development of the field.},
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Bachelor Theses
2021
Ambert, Margaux; Iparraguirre, Camille; Nowak, Natacha; Villain, Chloé
Faut-il des quotas en faveur des femmes ? Bachelor Thesis
2021.
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title = {Faut-il des quotas en faveur des femmes ?},
author = {Margaux Ambert and Camille Iparraguirre and Natacha Nowak and Chloé Villain},
url = {https://controverses.minesparis.psl.eu/public/promo13/promo13_G25/www.controverses-minesparistech-7.fr/_groupe25/index.html},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-08-01},
urldate = {2021-08-01},
abstract = {La cartographie des controverses fut crée par le sociologue français Bruno Latour, professeur et directeur scientifique à Sciences-Po Paris.
Depuis les années 2000, cette discipline enseignée à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, à Sciences-Po Paris, mais aussi au MIT (Boston), à la Manchester University, ainsi qu’à l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
De manière générale, dans l’étude d’une controverse, la cartographie permet de traduire l’observation d’un paysage complexe dans une représentation capable de rendre sa complexité facilement lisible par toute personne. En effet, une controverse est une situation, un paysage complexe dans lequel se trouvent une multitude d’acteurs en présence poursuivant des intérêts contradictoires et facent à une pluralité d’enjeux. La cartographie permet de se construire un avis sur un objet de notre société auquel nous sommes plus ou moins directement concernés.
Concernant notre controverse sur les quotas en faveur des femmes, vous trouverez dans la rubrique Acteurs quelques schéma de quantification ainsi qu’une frise chronologique. Ici, nous rajouterons seulement quelques liens vers Cortext pour que les personnes intéressées puissent visualiser d’autres données de nos recherches.
(Le site web suivant est un exercice réalisé par des élèves de première année de l’école des mines dans le cadre du cours de Description des controverses. Ces sites sont le résultat de travail d’étudiants et sont mis en ligne pour des raisons pédagogiques et didactiques.)},
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Depuis les années 2000, cette discipline enseignée à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, à Sciences-Po Paris, mais aussi au MIT (Boston), à la Manchester University, ainsi qu’à l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
De manière générale, dans l’étude d’une controverse, la cartographie permet de traduire l’observation d’un paysage complexe dans une représentation capable de rendre sa complexité facilement lisible par toute personne. En effet, une controverse est une situation, un paysage complexe dans lequel se trouvent une multitude d’acteurs en présence poursuivant des intérêts contradictoires et facent à une pluralité d’enjeux. La cartographie permet de se construire un avis sur un objet de notre société auquel nous sommes plus ou moins directement concernés.
Concernant notre controverse sur les quotas en faveur des femmes, vous trouverez dans la rubrique Acteurs quelques schéma de quantification ainsi qu’une frise chronologique. Ici, nous rajouterons seulement quelques liens vers Cortext pour que les personnes intéressées puissent visualiser d’autres données de nos recherches.
(Le site web suivant est un exercice réalisé par des élèves de première année de l’école des mines dans le cadre du cours de Description des controverses. Ces sites sont le résultat de travail d’étudiants et sont mis en ligne pour des raisons pédagogiques et didactiques.)
Books
2021
Rikap, Cecilia; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke
The Digital Innovation Race : Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order Book
2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-89442-9.
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year = {2021},
date = {2021-12-01},
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abstract = {This book develops new theoretical perspectives on the economics and politics of innovation and knowledge in order to capture new trends in modern capitalism. It shows how giant corporations establish themselves as intellectual monopolies and how each of them builds and controls its own corporate innovation system. It presents an analysis of a new form of production where Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, and their counterparts in China, extract value and appropriate intellectual rents through privileged access to AI algorithms trained by data from organizations and individuals all around the world.
These companies’ specific form of production and rent-seeking takes place at the global level and challenges national governments trying to regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger national innovation systems. It is within this context that the authors provide new insights on the complex interplay between corporate and national innovation systems by looking at the US-China conflict, understood as a struggle for global technological supremacy. The book ends with alternative scenarios of global governance and advances policy recommendations as well as calls for social activism.
This book will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners (both from national states and international organizations) and professionals working on innovation, digital capitalism and related topics. },
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These companies’ specific form of production and rent-seeking takes place at the global level and challenges national governments trying to regulate intellectual monopolies and attempting to build stronger national innovation systems. It is within this context that the authors provide new insights on the complex interplay between corporate and national innovation systems by looking at the US-China conflict, understood as a struggle for global technological supremacy. The book ends with alternative scenarios of global governance and advances policy recommendations as well as calls for social activism.
This book will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners (both from national states and international organizations) and professionals working on innovation, digital capitalism and related topics.
Rikap, Cecilia
Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (1st ed.) Book
London, 2021, ISBN: 9780429341489.
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title = {Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (1st ed.)},
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abstract = {In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book’s unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power. The author explains how at the one pole, these corporations concentrate income, property and power in the United States, China, and in a handful of intellectual monopolies, particularly from digital and pharmaceutical industries, while at the other pole developing countries are left further behind.
The book includes detailed empirical mappings of how intellectual monopolies develop and transform knowledge from universities and open-source collaborations into intangible assets. The result is a strategy that combines undermining the commons through privatization with harvesting from the same commons. The book ends with provoking reflections to tilt the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism and arguing that desired changes require democratic mobilization of workers and citizens at large.
This book represents one of the first attempts to capture the contours of an emerging new era where old perspectives lead us astray, and the old policy toolbox is hopelessly inadequate. This is true for the idea that the best, or only, way to promote innovation is to transform knowledge into private property. It is also true for anti-trust policies focusing exclusively on consumer prices. The formation of global infrastructures that lead to natural monopolies calls for public rather than private ownership.
Scholars and professionals from the social sciences and humanities (in particular economics, sociology, political science, geography, educational science and science and technology studies) will enjoy a clear and all-embracing depiction of innovation dynamics in contemporary capitalism, with a particular focus on asymmetries between actors, regions and topics. In fact, its topical issue broadens the book’s scope to those curious about how innovation networks shape our world.},
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The book includes detailed empirical mappings of how intellectual monopolies develop and transform knowledge from universities and open-source collaborations into intangible assets. The result is a strategy that combines undermining the commons through privatization with harvesting from the same commons. The book ends with provoking reflections to tilt the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism and arguing that desired changes require democratic mobilization of workers and citizens at large.
This book represents one of the first attempts to capture the contours of an emerging new era where old perspectives lead us astray, and the old policy toolbox is hopelessly inadequate. This is true for the idea that the best, or only, way to promote innovation is to transform knowledge into private property. It is also true for anti-trust policies focusing exclusively on consumer prices. The formation of global infrastructures that lead to natural monopolies calls for public rather than private ownership.
Scholars and professionals from the social sciences and humanities (in particular economics, sociology, political science, geography, educational science and science and technology studies) will enjoy a clear and all-embracing depiction of innovation dynamics in contemporary capitalism, with a particular focus on asymmetries between actors, regions and topics. In fact, its topical issue broadens the book’s scope to those curious about how innovation networks shape our world.
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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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