Pierre Benz
@benzpierre.bsky.social
I am a sociologist engaging with the information sciences
Postdoc fellow at Université de Montréal
Focus on sciences, elites, inequalities, power, careers
Postdoc fellow at Université de Montréal
Focus on sciences, elites, inequalities, power, careers
🔥🔥 New article in PlosOne 🔥🔥
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🔥🔥 New article in PlosOne 🔥🔥
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Oui oui oui je confirme
What an issue 🔥🔥🔥
After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Oui oui oui je confirme
This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo 🔥🔥🔥
After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mapping relational structures in culture
Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo 🔥🔥🔥
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🚨🚨🚨 Code red, I repeat, code read 🚨🚨🚨
The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social
70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries
See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social
70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries
See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Code red, I repeat, code read 🚨🚨🚨
The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social
70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries
See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social
70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries
See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Pierre Benz
The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Pierre Benz
An incredible addition to our special issue on Mapping relational structures in culture. And a great thread on the paper (in French). Thanks a lot @pierrebat.cpesr.fr @robcss.cpesr.fr @mathiasrota.bsky.social for the amazing work!!
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Sortie ce jour de notre article sur l'intérêt de dépasser les querelles de chapelles et de croiser réseaux et analyse geometrique dans @poeticsjournal.bsky.social
Avec M. Perrenoud, @robcss.cpesr.fr, C. Christe @mathiasrota.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sortie ce jour de notre article sur l'intérêt de dépasser les querelles de chapelles et de croiser réseaux et analyse geometrique dans @poeticsjournal.bsky.social
Avec M. Perrenoud, @robcss.cpesr.fr, C. Christe @mathiasrota.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
An incredible addition to our special issue on Mapping relational structures in culture. And a great thread on the paper (in French). Thanks a lot @pierrebat.cpesr.fr @robcss.cpesr.fr @mathiasrota.bsky.social for the amazing work!!
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🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨
🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
A thread (1/10)
🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
A thread (1/10)
March 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Reposted by Pierre Benz
My colleagues and I have been sharing blogs and news about a survey we did on how researchers use generative AI - that study is now published and openly available here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
January 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My colleagues and I have been sharing blogs and news about a survey we did on how researchers use generative AI - that study is now published and openly available here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
Reposted by Pierre Benz
New publication (in French): shorturl.at/CW7R3
Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.
Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.
January 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New publication (in French): shorturl.at/CW7R3
Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.
Analyzing 1,423 elite marriages in Geneva between 1890 and 1957, I show the persistence of endogamy among patrician elites, particularly those with significant economic power.
And so many other cool and very diversified things in this issues focusing on How To Become a Sociology Professor:
Opportunities, Inequalities, Alternatives
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Opportunities, Inequalities, Alternatives
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January 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And so many other cool and very diversified things in this issues focusing on How To Become a Sociology Professor:
Opportunities, Inequalities, Alternatives
www.sgs-sss.ch/wp-content/u...
Opportunities, Inequalities, Alternatives
www.sgs-sss.ch/wp-content/u...
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Our new article ‘Science for whom? The influence of the regional academic circuit on gender inequalities in Latin America’ has just been published! asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A work we did with @diegokoz.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social
A work we did with @diegokoz.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social
<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library
The Latin-American scientific community has achieved significant progress towards gender parity, with nearly equal representation of women and men scientists. Nevertheless, women continue to be under...
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Our new article ‘Science for whom? The influence of the regional academic circuit on gender inequalities in Latin America’ has just been published! asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A work we did with @diegokoz.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social
A work we did with @diegokoz.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social
This is so cool that they use CSA to understand sub-fields within a topicspace :) :) :)
What matters then applying for art funding? Essentially you have to cater to established art concepts to receive funding. @antongrau.bsky.social and I look into this and more in our recent article, which is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Designed for success or failure: Differences in funding and rejection in the space of applications to the Danish Art Foundation among craftsmen and designers
Craft and design are art forms that teeter on the boundary of being considered art. Because of this, these mediums are an ideal case to examine how th…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
This is so cool that they use CSA to understand sub-fields within a topicspace :) :) :)
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If you happen to be in Lausanne this Thursday, do stop by at Unil as @benzpierre.bsky.social and I will be giving a very short introduction on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in R.
An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!
An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!
December 3, 2024 at 8:23 AM
If you happen to be in Lausanne this Thursday, do stop by at Unil as @benzpierre.bsky.social and I will be giving a very short introduction on Multiple Correspondence Analysis in R.
An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!
An then you can fly straight to Oslo for a one-week MCA course with @magneflemmen.bsky.social next month!
Reposted by Pierre Benz
Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
This article suggests a comparative field analytical approach to fields of cultural production. Combining concepts from field analysis and focusing on…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...