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The H-index of a network node and its relation to degree and coreness
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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 "Equation missing", 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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- Authors
- Lü, L., Zhou, T., Zhang, Q.-M., & Stanley, H. E.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2016-01-12
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 10168-10168
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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- W2261717057
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- 690
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 36.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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