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
2020
Semaan, Marleine
Effectuation et innovation dans des contextes contraints en ressources : une revue de littérature Journal Article
In: Innovations, vol. 2020/3, no. 63, pp. 153 à 178, 2020, ISBN: 9782807394209.
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title = {Effectuation et innovation dans des contextes contraints en ressources : une revue de littérature},
author = {Marleine Semaan},
url = {https://www.cairn.info/revue-innovations-2020-3-page-153.htm},
doi = {10.3917/inno.063.0153},
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year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-09},
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journal = {Innovations},
volume = {2020/3},
number = {63},
pages = {153 à 178},
abstract = {Ce travail a pour objectif d’identifier à quel(s) type(s) d’innovations contraintes par les ressources, la théorie de l’effectuation est reliée et quelles sont les problématiques pour lesquelles ces deux littératures sont mobilisées conjointement. Pour ce faire, nous avons réalisé une revue systématique de littérature basée sur une analyse bibliométrique (co-citations des références) et une analyse sémantique (co-citations des mots clés). Les résultats de ces analyses effectuées sur 55 documents, à l’aide de la plateforme d’analyse textuelle et bibliométrique, CORTEXT Manager, montrent que la théorie de l’effectuation est fortement liée au bricolage par le biais de différentes thématiques liées à l’entrepreneuriat telles que l’éducation entrepreneuriale, l’internationalisation, les approches d’exploration et de création d’opportunités et l’entrepreneuriat social. },
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Omena, Janna Joceli; Rabello, Elaine Teixeira; Mintz, André Goes
Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research Journal Article
In: Social Media + Society, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 2056305120940697, 2020.
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title = {Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research},
author = {Janna Joceli Omena and Elaine Teixeira Rabello and André Goes Mintz},
url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120940697},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120940697},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-03},
urldate = {2020-09-03},
journal = {Social Media + Society},
volume = {6},
number = {3},
pages = {2056305120940697},
abstract = {This article seeks to contribute to the field of digital research by critically accounting for the relationship between hashtags and their forms of grammatization—the platform techno-materialization process of online activity. We approach hashtags as sociotechnical formations that serve social media research not only as criteria in corpus selection but also displaying the complexity of the online engagement and its entanglement with the technicity of web platforms. Therefore, the study of hashtag engagement requires a grasping of the functioning of the platform itself (technicity) along with the platform grammatization. In this respect, we propose the three-layered (3L) perspective for addressing hashtag engagement. The first contemplates potential differences between high-visibility and ordinary hashtag usage culture, its related actors, and content. The second focuses on hashtagging activity and the repurposing of how hashtags can be differently embedded into social media databases. The last layer looks particularly into the images and texts to which hashtags are brought to relation. To operationalize the 3L framework, we draw on the case of the “impeachment-cum-coup” of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. When cross-read, the three layers add value to one another, providing also difference visions of the high-visibility and ordinary groups.},
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Kundu, Oishee; James, Andrew D; Rigby, John
Public procurement and innovation: a systematic literature review Journal Article
In: Science and Public Policy, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 490-502, 2020, ISSN: 0302-3427.
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title = {Public procurement and innovation: a systematic literature review},
author = {Oishee Kundu and Andrew D James and John Rigby},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa029},
doi = {10.1093/scipol/scaa029},
issn = {0302-3427},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-09-01},
urldate = {2020-09-01},
journal = {Science and Public Policy},
volume = {47},
number = {4},
pages = {490-502},
abstract = {Public procurement and innovation is the subject of a growing body of literature. This article systematically reviews the existing research, documenting its evolution and highlighting dominant and overlooked themes. We find a dramatic increase in the number of journal publications on this topic since 2008, the existence of thematic communities within the literature, and a focus on empirical work. We analysed keywords and abstracts to identify the broad boundaries of research on public procurement and innovation as well as particular areas of focus in the literature. We found a variety of terms used to describe the application of public procurement as an innovation policy tool and a variety of thematic interests and theoretical foundations. We argue that this makes it challenging to consolidate the research on the topic. From a policy perspective, the geographical context of research is overwhelmingly concentrated in OECD and EU countries.},
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Deng, Shengli; Xia, Sudi; Hu, Jiming; Li, Hongxiu; Liu, Yong
Exploring the topic structure and evolution of associations in information behavior research through co-word analysis Journal Article
In: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2020.
@article{Deng2020,
title = {Exploring the topic structure and evolution of associations in information behavior research through co-word analysis},
author = {Shengli Deng and Sudi Xia and Jiming Hu and Hongxiu Li and Yong Liu },
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620938120},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-07-01},
urldate = {2020-07-01},
journal = {Journal of Librarianship and Information Science},
abstract = {This study aims to reveal the distribution of topics, and the associations among them, in information behavior research from 2009 to 2018. Working with a collection of 6744 publications from the Web of Science database, co-word analysis is used to investigate the overall topic structure, the associations among the topics, and their evolution in different years, which is supplemented by visualization with science maps. The results uncovered an unbalanced distribution of topics, and that the topics cluster into six communities representing subdivisions of this field: information behavior in patient-centered studies; information interaction in the digital environment; information literacy in health and academic contexts; health literacy on the Internet; information behavior in child-centered studies; and information behavior in medical informatics. The findings supplement and provide refinements to work on the state of this field, and help researchers obtain an overview of the past decade to guide their future work.},
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Long trends on twitter: intertemporal clusters combining hashtags and terms on Scientometrics, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics and Science Of Science
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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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