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The gatekeeper, pair-dependency and structural centrality

Quality & QuantityPublished 1 August 1980
L FREEMAN
Citations229
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score0.87
SNIP1.85

TL;DR

Pair-dependency explicates the centrality-related notion of the gatekeeper and turns out to be a fundamental structural property of communication networks that provides the basis for the derivation of two standard measures of structural centrality.

Abstract

This is a note to introduce a new measure of a kind of structural centrality called pair-dependency. Pair-dependency explicates the centrality-related notion of the gatekeeper. Moreover, it turns out to be a fundamental structural property of communication networks that provides the basis for the derivation of two standard measures of structural centrality.

Keywords

MathematicsPhysics and Astronomy