Research Article

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

Table 4

Size statistics of the opinion leaders (top-1 influencers) for the centrality measures computed on the friendship networks (229 networks).

CentralityMeanVarianceNo. of unique cases

In-degree1.71621.2862142
PageRank1.01310.0129226
Two-hop neighborhood2.57644.7944104
Coreness12.292619.05410
Eigenvector1.00870.0087227
Closeness1.30570.5092192
Betweenness1.00870.0087227
Borda count aggregation1.0660.0699215