Methoden vergleichen

	Zentralitätsanalyse	Community Detection	Analyse sozialer Netzwerke
Fachgebiet	Netzwerkanalyse	Netzwerkanalyse	Netzwerkanalyse
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Entstehungsjahr	1979	2002–2019 (algorithm family)	1934 (sociometry); 1994 (modern formalization)
Urheber	Linton C. Freeman	Louvain: Blondel et al. (2008); Leiden: Traag et al. (2019); Girvan-Newman: Girvan & Newman (2002); Infomap: Rosvall & Bergstrom (2008)	Moreno, J.L.; formalized by Wasserman & Faust
Typ	Descriptive / exploratory network measure family	Graph-partitioning / clustering algorithm family	Structural/relational analysis framework
Wegweisende Quelle	Freeman, L.C. (1979). Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks, 1(3), 215-239.	Blondel, V.D., Guillaume, J.-L., Lambiotte, R. & Lefebvre, E. (2008). Fast Unfolding of Communities in Large Networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008(10), P10008.	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1
Aliasnamen	Merkeziyet Analizi (Degree, Betweenness, Eigenvector), node centrality, centrality measures, graph centrality	graph clustering, network partitioning, Topluluk Tespiti (Louvain, Girvan-Newman, Leiden)	SNA, network analysis, sociometric analysis, relational analysis
Verwandt	5	5	5
Zusammenfassung	Centrality analysis is a family of network-analytic measures, formalized by Freeman (1979), that quantifies the structural importance of individual nodes within a graph. Each centrality index captures a distinct mechanism of influence: degree centrality reflects direct connectivity, betweenness centrality identifies nodes that broker information flow, closeness centrality captures proximity to all others, and eigenvector centrality (along with PageRank) rewards connection to highly connected neighbors.	Community detection is a family of graph-partitioning algorithms that discover densely connected sub-groups — communities — within a network. First formalised through the modularity measure by Girvan and Newman (2002), the field advanced rapidly with the Louvain method (Blondel et al., 2008), the Leiden refinement (Traag et al., 2019), and the information-theoretic Infomap approach. All variants answer the same question: which nodes cluster together more tightly among themselves than with the rest of the network?	Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a structural method that maps and measures relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, or other entities modeled as nodes connected by ties (edges). Rather than focusing on individual attributes, SNA reveals how the pattern of connections shapes behavior, influence, information flow, and outcomes within a system.