François receives a two-year research grant for his project Bibliometric History of the Cognitive Structure of the Social Sciences.  It is a follow-up of the project on the history of economics (article, web app). Team: Coresearcher: Yves Gingras Collaborators: Gilles Caporossi et Roger Backhouse The Chair will soon recruit research assistants on this project! Read more

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This content is not available in the selected language. Economics, like all other disciplines, is not a homogeneous whole : it is divided in specialties. Furthermore, the identity and relationships of these specialties are dynamic. This talk presents an interactive web platform that allows the user to explore the dynamic structure of economics specialties from the […] Read more

A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments of the boundaries of specialties: bibliographic coupling, automated community detection in dynamic networks, and text […] Read more

The website dedicated to this project is here. The web app in this project allows the user to explore the evolution of specialties in economics since the late 1950s. Other web apps will be added. Read more

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