centrality

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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.

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  1. noun The state or quality of being central.
  2. noun A tendency to be or remain at the center.

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  • (I.e. degree, number of people reachable, centrality, etc.) —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The commercial media is both ignorant of and blocks coverage of stories about non-centrality of the gene because its science advertising dollars come from the gene-centered Darwin industry. —  ScreenTalk
  • Callebaut's Altenberg paper is on non-centrality of the gene. —  ScreenTalk
  • If this is an example of the centrality (to use Patnaiks 'phrase) that the CPM accords to politics, we are in a dangerous situation indeed. —  Kafila
  • "When people say that the authority of Scripture or the centrality of Jesus is in question, actually it's their social, economic and political system that has been built in the name of Jesus that's being threatened," Bell says. —  Telling Secrets
 

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