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ArticleScientific reports2021

Graph hierarchy: a novel framework to analyse hierarchical structures in complex networks.

Giannis Moutsinas, Choudhry Shuaib, Weisi Guo, Stephen Jarvis

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Giannis MoutsinasSchool of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, Coventry University, Coventry, UK. giannis.moutsinas@gmail.com.
Choudhry ShuaibDepartment of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Choudhry.Shuaib@warwick.ac.uk.
Weisi GuoCentre for Autonomous and Cyberphysical Systems, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK.
Stephen JarvisCollege of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Coventry University · GBCranfield University · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GBUniversity of Warwick · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trophic coherence, a measure of a graph's hierarchical organisation, has been shown to be linked to a graph's structural and dynamical aspects such as cyclicity, stability and normality. Trophic levels of vertices can reveal their functional properties, partition and rank the vertices accordingly. Trophic levels and hence trophic coherence can only be defined on graphs with basal vertices, i.e. vertices with zero in-degree. Consequently, trophic analysis of graphs had been restricted until now. In this paper we introduce a hierarchical framework which can be defined on any simple graph. Within this general framework, we develop several metrics: hierarchical levels, a generalisation of the notion of trophic levels, influence centrality, a measure of a vertex's ability to influence dynamics, and democracy coefficient, a measure of overall feedback in the system. We discuss how our generalisation relates to previous attempts and what new insights are illuminated on the topological and dynamical aspects of graphs. Finally, we show how the hierarchical structure of a network relates to the incidence rate in a SIS epidemic model and the economic insights we can gain through it.

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PMID34230531
PMCPMC8260706
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