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. 2019 May 14;5(5):e01677. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01677

Table 3.

Categorization of SMIs and relative indicators.

Indicator Description Category of SMI
Hub Index Social media users are sorted on the basis of the total number of messages sent to important users. Writer
Authority Index Social media users are sorted on the basis of the number of messages received from the most active users. Authority
Centrality Index Social media users are sorted on the basis of a k-shell decomposition analysis (considering the number of citations and connections) Spreader