Competition-Based Benchmarking of Influence Ranking Methods in Social Networks

Table 3

Average performance of the 10 ranking methods on the 8 datasets. Performance is expressed as opinion coverage (%) obtained in the one-to-one opinion diffusion competitions with every other ranking method.

	Rand	Mesh	SW	SF	OSN	FB	Emails	POK
Deg	66.18	71.26	68.94	61.71	52.76	56.18	63.52	63.28
Cls	23.02	5.47	11.39	1.83	2.55	11.49	2.40	45.78
Btw	66.15	42.93	56.96	62.78	40.37	57.51	58.33	58.27
HITS	66.28	69.32	76.92	61.63	64.42	62.10	63.56	63.09
PR	77.16	65.35	71.93	55.74	41.08	55.99	63.55	63.94
HI	12.13	52.82	33.25	54.72	24.23	41.36	39.60	36.30
LR	76.95	67.57	66.72	61.53	64.39	68.06	63.97	66.87
KS	0.99	39.65	37.87	45.89	28.77	28.87	42.07	13.33
CLC	33.93	52.36	60.24	26.99	44.74	55.91	48.43	48.01
EC	23.12	32.96	39.43	43.09	62.83	44.54	51.49	32.27