Table 4.
The most central authors based on co-authorship. (We evaluate how central authors are based on different centrality measures. More specifically, we report on who is the most connected author (degree centrality) and who are closest to the rest of the nodes (closeness centrality). Also we report on the ones through which passes more information (betweenness centrality) and the ones connected to other central nodes (eigenvector centrality). Although there is some shifting between the most central authors based on different measures most of the names remain the same over all the measures. All the names are identified as males.)
| name | betweenness (weighted) central | name | closeness central | name | eigenvector (weighted) central | name | degree central |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perc, Matjaž | 0.181886 | Wang, Zhen | 0.239236 | Wang, Long | 0.465536 | Wang, Zhen | 0.028754 |
| Wang, Zhen | 0.157579 | Perc, Matjaž | 0.237049 | Chen, Xiaojie | 0.412551 | Perc, Matjaž | 0.024920 |
| Nowak, Martin A. | 0.112082 | Moreno, Yamir | 0.229596 | Perc, Matjaž | 0.392323 | Nowak, Martin A. | 0.021725 |
| Wu, Bin | 0.083079 | Wu, Bin | 0.228267 | Szolnoki, Attila | 0.367865 | Traulsen, Arne | 0.015122 |
| Xia, Chengyi | 0.080835 | Wang, Long | 0.227548 | Fu, Feng | 0.224587 | Xia, Chengyi | 0.014483 |
| Iwasa, Yoh | 0.074673 | Shi, Lei | 0.223284 | Wu, Te | 0.217658 | Wang, Long | 0.013419 |
| Wang, Chao | 0.068694 | Szolnoki, Attila | 0.222343 | Wang, Zhen | 0.167830 | Wang, Binghong | 0.013206 |
| Traulsen, Arne | 0.067122 | Traulsen, Arne | 0.222301 | Liu, Yongkui | 0.121802 | Chen, Xiaojie | 0.012993 |
| Rand, David G. | 0.062677 | Boccaletti, Stefano | 0.220630 | Szabó, György | 0.115295 | Shi, Lei | 0.011289 |
| Zhang, H | 0.059437 | Xia, Chengyi | 0.220205 | Wu, Bin | 0.109007 | Tuyls, Karl | 0.010224 |
| Shi, Lei | 0.058491 | Nowak, Martin A. | 0.220154 | Zhang, Yanling | 0.089163 | Sanchez, Angel | 0.009585 |
| Cressman, Ross | 0.056038 | Chen, Xiaojie | 0.219413 | Nowak, Martin A. | 0.088939 | Li, Xiang | 0.009585 |
| Chen, Xiaojie | 0.052469 | Iwasa, Yoh | 0.218606 | Cong, Rui | 0.085074 | Brown, Joel S. | 0.009159 |
| Moreno, Yamir | 0.051839 | Rand, David G. | 0.217825 | Li, Zhi | 0.078230 | Rong, Zhihai | 0.008946 |
| Chen, Wei | 0.051137 | Jusup, Marko | 0.217160 | Wang, Jing | 0.069681 | Moreno, Yamir | 0.008946 |