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Directed Betweenness Centrality

Directed Betweenness Centrality extends Freeman's classic betweenness measure to directed graphs, quantifying how often a node lies on the shortest directed paths between all other pairs of nodes. It identifies gatekeepers, brokers, and bottlenecks in asymmetric flows such as information cascades, citation networks, and organizational hierarchies.

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Directed Betweenness Centrality (Freeman's Betweenness on Directed Graphs)
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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