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Pierre Benz

@benzpierre.bsky.social
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I am a sociologist engaging with the information sciences Postdoc fellow at Université de Montréal Focus on sciences, elites, inequalities, power, careers

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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🔥🔥 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...
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Citation proximus: The role of social and semantic ties on citations
Despite being considered as key indicators of research impact, citations are shaped by factors beyond intrinsic research quality—such as including prestige, social networks, and research topics. While...
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Oui oui oui je confirme
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is an amazing work from amazing collegues in an amazing journal bravo bravo bravo 🔥🔥🔥
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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨 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....
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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....
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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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/...
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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...
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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
C’est chaud de trouver des gif ou c’est moi ?
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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a bunch of monsters are standing next to each other
ALT: a bunch of monsters are standing next to each other
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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a video game with a brick wall and a few plants
ALT: a video game with a brick wall and a few plants
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Jens Peter Andersen @ipoga.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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...
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Pedro Araujo @araujopedro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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.
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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...
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Carolina Pradier @caropradier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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<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...
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Pierre Benz @benzpierre.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is so cool that they use CSA to understand sub-fields within a topicspace :) :) :)
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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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!
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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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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…
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