Research Article

The Core Might Change Anyhow We Define It: The Instability of Key Actors in Longitudinal Social Network Data

Table 2

Size statistics of opinion leaders (top-1 influencers) for the centrality measures computed on the advice-seeking networks (221 networks).

CentralityMeanVarianceNo. of unique cases

In-degree1.57820.7557128
PageRank1.00470.0047210
Two-hop neighbourhood1.93832.1621114
Coreness11.682529.1930
Eigenvector1.00221
Borda count aggregation1.0850.0875194