Research Article

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

Table 5

The empirical mean of the Jaccard similarity values computed between the aggregated measure over both advice-seeking and friendship networks and the classical centrality measures.

Network typeiDgpg2NbhCoreeignclbtwBca

Advice-seeking0.430.380.390.380.35——0.43
Friendship0.470.430.40.390.480.460.420.55

The variance is between 0.0151 and 0.1081. iDg: in-degree, pg: PageRank, 2Nbh: two-hop neighbourhood, Core: coreness, eign: eigenvector centrality, cl: closeness, btw: betweenness, and Bca: Borda count aggregation.