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Control Centrality and Hierarchical Structure in Complex Networks

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, September 2012
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Title
Control Centrality and Hierarchical Structure in Complex Networks
Published in
PLOS ONE, September 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0044459
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Authors

Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási

Abstract

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly determined by the network's degree distribution. We show that in a directed network without loops the control centrality of a node is uniquely determined by its layer index or topological position in the underlying hierarchical structure of the network. Inspired by the deep relation between control centrality and hierarchical structure in a general directed network, we design an efficient attack strategy against the controllability of malicious networks.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 9 3%
United Kingdom 5 2%
Spain 3 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 10 3%
Unknown 277 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 103 33%
Researcher 61 19%
Student > Master 32 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 5%
Professor 17 5%
Other 53 17%
Unknown 31 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 53 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 16%
Engineering 49 16%
Physics and Astronomy 29 9%
Social Sciences 17 5%
Other 71 23%
Unknown 45 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2013.
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#2,529,246
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#30,811
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#17,293
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#501
of 4,436 outputs
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