A measure of local uniqueness to identify linchpins in a social network with node attributes

Abstract Network centrality measures assign importance to influential or key nodes in a network based on the topological structure of the underlying adjacency matrix. In this work, we define the importance of a node in a network as being dependent on whether it is the only one of its kind among its...

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Main Authors: Matthew D. Nemesure, Thomas M. Schwedhelm, Sofia Sacerdote, A. James O’Malley, Luke R. Rozema, Erika L. Moen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-07-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-021-00400-8