Compară metode

	Centralitatea de intermediere	Centralitate de Apropiere
Domeniu	Analiza rețelelor	Analiza rețelelor
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anul apariției	1977	1950 (formalized 1979)
Autorul original	Freeman, L. C.	Bavelas, A.; formalized by Freeman, L. C.
Tip	Centrality measure	Node-level centrality index
Sursa seminală	Freeman, L. C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 40(1), 35–41.	Freeman, L. C. (1979). Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 1(3), 215–239.
Denumiri alternative	Freeman betweenness, BC, geodesic betweenness, shortest-path betweenness	closeness, farness-based centrality, geodesic closeness, normalized closeness centrality
Înrudite	6	6
Rezumat	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.	Closeness centrality measures how quickly a node can reach all others in a network by computing the inverse of its average shortest-path distance to every other node. First described by Bavelas (1950) and formally unified by Freeman (1979), it identifies nodes that can spread information or resources efficiently across the entire graph — not merely nodes with many direct contacts.