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Betweenness Centrality

Betweenness centrality, formalized by Linton C. Freeman in 1977, measures how often a node lies on the shortest path connecting every other pair of nodes in a network. High-betweenness nodes act as bridges or brokers: removing them fragments the network into disconnected components more severely than removing any other nodes.

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Betweenness Centrality (Freeman's Geodesic Betweenness)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / network-analysis
  • Freeman, L. C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 40(1), 35–41. · DOI 10.2307/3033543
  • Brandes, U. (2001). A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 25(2), 163–177. · DOI 10.1080/0022250X.2001.9990249
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