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# Dr. Anton Oleinik

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Dr. Anton Oleinik is a professor of sociology who taught in Canada (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s), Kazakhstan (Academy of Public Administration, Astana), Mongolia (National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar) and Russia (Smolny College, St. Petersburg). His areas of expertise are political sociology, political economy, social data science, text-as-data, content analysis, text mining, mixed methods and area studies (Ukrainian studies and Russian studies). He has developed a novel method for analyzing big heterogeneous textual data and an online platform for content analysis, ThinkMate.

[Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=pw3YEJ0AAAAJ)       [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5229-1052)       [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-oleinik-1b596534/)       [eLibrary](https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=118584)       [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Oleinik-2)       GitHub

## Publications and Projects

### Articles

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

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### Books

Scholarly monographs

[View](https://antonoleinik.ca/books?hsLang=fr-ca)

### Commentaries

Commentaries and Op-Ed articles

[View](https://antonoleinik.ca/commentaries?hsLang=fr-ca)

### ThinkMate

Server-based platform for content analysis supporting individual and team projects

[View](https://www.thinkmate.org/en/)

### Big textual data on the Russia-Ukraine War

Quadrilingual corpora of political and media discourses about Russia's invasion of Ukraine

[View](https://antonoleinik.ca/corpora?hsLang=fr-ca)

### Applications of the methodology

Types of practical tasks that can be completed with its help

[View](https://antonoleinik.ca/applications?hsLang=fr-ca)

### Big textual data on the 2026 Iran War

English-language corpora of political and media discourses about the 2026 Iran War

[View](https://antonoleinik.ca/corpora-iran?hsLang=fr-ca)

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