SHIFT Research Unit
Tools
The unit develops and maintains open applications for research methods. They are free to use, and they are built for the work we do ourselves: reviewing literature, choosing an analysis, and modelling relations between people. Pick one to see what it does.
StatFabric
Your statistical decision workshop
Describe your research objective and the type of your variables, and StatFabric suggests the procedures that fit, the steps to run them in jamovi, and an example of how to report the result in APA. It also holds a per-test guide. Available in French and English.
Developed by Thibault Coppe, with Jimmy Amand, Sofia Ardaya Velarde and Christophe Leys
Open StatFabricAlpha
SLRcraft
An assistant for systematic literature reviews
A step-by-step workspace for a systematic review: protocol, search and import, title and abstract screening, full-text screening, quality appraisal, data extraction, and synthesis. It resolves disagreements between reviewers, builds the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram in a form ready for an APA 7 manuscript, and saves the whole project as a file you keep.
Developed by Thibault Coppe, with Coralie Delhaye
Open SLRcraftFrench only
Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded. Cite as: Coppe, T., & Delhaye, C. (2026). SLRcraft : un outil offline pour les revues systématiques de la littérature (Version 2.0.0) [Logiciel]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19852966
NetFabric
Social network analysis without writing the code
Three blocks of empirical network analysis, one per tab: descriptive metrics, centralities and communities; ERGM, for which effects predict ties; and SAOM, for how networks and behaviour evolve. Each analysis is a real call to igraph, ergm or RSiena, the R code tab shows the script that ran, and results export as tables, plots or a self-contained HTML report.
Developed by Thibault Coppe
Link coming soonAlpha
ScaleForge
Scale validation, step by step
Eight steps from a raw questionnaire to a validated scale: your data, item analysis, sample split, dimensionality, factor solution, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, and validity. It reads csv, xlsx, sav and omv files, holds out a confirmation sample, draws the measurement model, and reports the fit indices. Available in French and English.
Developed by Thibault Coppe
Link coming soon
PolicyTrace
Process tracing across policy documents and interviews
PolicyTrace supports the analysis of public policy by tracing evidence between reports, policy texts and elite interviews. Links are coded by hand, at the level of a whole document or of a single passage, and the corpus can be read as an interactive map of documents and their links or along a timeline. Several people can work on the same project.
Developed by Thibault Coppe, with Jo Bjørkli Helgetun
In development
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