betweenness

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In addition to science citation indicators of journals like impact and immediacy, social network analysis provides a set of centrality measures like degree, betweenness, and closeness centrality.

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  1. The quality or fact of being between.
  2. In mathematics, the ordinal quality possessed by one of every three points on a straight line, in virtue of which it may be said to lie between the other two points. Of Hilbert's betweenness assumptions, axioms of order, one of the five is redundant. Science, March 11, 1904, p. 410.

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  • In addition to science citation indicators of journals like impact and immediacy, social network analysis provides a set of centrality measures like degree, betweenness, and closeness centrality. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Betweenness centrality is shown to be an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of journals, but only in local citation environments and after normalization; otherwise, the influence of degree centrality (size) overshadows the betweenness-centrality measure. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The RNC-WC also possesses the highest amount of betweenness in this community. —  Homeland Stupidity
  • Nodes with a high degree of betweenness act as liaisons or bridges to other nodes in the structure. —  Homeland Stupidity
  • We adapt the betweenness centrality metric from statistical physics as a first approximation of country centrality. —  p2pnet news
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