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

Shen, Shiying; Wenhao,; Liu, Xin; Zeng, Jianwen; Li, Sixie; Zhu, Xiaohong; Dong, Chaoqun; Wang, Bin; Shi, Yankai; Yao, Jiani; Wang, Bingsheng; Jing, Louxia; Cao, Shihua; Liang, Guanmian

From virtual to reality: innovative practices of digital twins in tumor therapy Journal Article

In: Journal of Translational Medicine, vol. 23, iss. 348, 2025.

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Kumari, Anshu; Tiwari, Manish; Mor, Rahul; Jagtap, Sandeep

Mapping research frontiers in gender and sustainability in agricultural development: a bibliometric review Journal Article

In: Discover Sustainability, vol. 6, iss. 174, 2025.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX

Mallard, Alexandre

Comment la crise énergétique reconfigure les débats sur la sobriété. Une analyse des problématisations dans la presse nationale française. Journal Article

In: VertigO, 2025.

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Hinkelman, Kathryn; Garcia, Juan Diego Flores; Wang, Jing; Anbarasu, Saranya; Zuo, Wangda

A Review of Multi-Energy Systems from Resiliency and Equity Perspectives Journal Article Forthcoming

In: Forthcoming.

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