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The H-index of a network node and its relation to degree and coreness

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, January 2016
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Title
The H-index of a network node and its relation to degree and coreness
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Nature Communications, January 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms10168
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Authors

Linyuan Lü, Tao Zhou, Qian-Ming Zhang, H. Eugene Stanley

Abstract

Identifying influential nodes in dynamical processes is crucial in understanding network structure and function. Degree, H-index and coreness are widely used metrics, but previously treated as unrelated. Here we show their relation by constructing an operator , in terms of which degree, H-index and coreness are the initial, intermediate and steady states of the sequences, respectively. We obtain a family of H-indices that can be used to measure a node's importance. We also prove that the convergence to coreness can be guaranteed even under an asynchronous updating process, allowing a decentralized local method of calculating a node's coreness in large-scale evolving networks. Numerical analyses of the susceptible-infected-removed spreading dynamics on disparate real networks suggest that the H-index is a good tradeoff that in many cases can better quantify node influence than either degree or coreness.

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Country Count As %
Spain 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 273 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 74 27%
Student > Master 35 13%
Researcher 32 12%
Student > Postgraduate 15 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 5%
Other 46 17%
Unknown 61 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 66 24%
Physics and Astronomy 23 8%
Engineering 21 8%
Mathematics 17 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 5%
Other 55 20%
Unknown 81 29%
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