Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential

Table 2

Top 20 targets of the skeleton network comparing with the original global terrorism network.

Original network			Skeleton network
Rank	Target nodes	TPKS	Rank	Target nodes	TPKS
1	Private Citizens & Property Belfast	25.34	1	Private Citizens & Property Belfast	25.34
2	Business Belfast	23.69	2	Business Belfast	23.69
3	Government (General) Belfast	23.25	3	Government (General) Belfast	23.25
4	Business Paris	21.72	4	Business Paris	21.72
5	Business San Miguel	21.19	5	Private Citizens & Property Lurgan	21.09
6	Private Citizens & Property Lurgan	21.09	6	Police Belfast	21.01
7	Police Belfast	21.01	7	Terrorists/Nonstate Militia Belfast	20.57
8	Private Citizens & Property Portadown	20.82	8	Private Citizens & Property Londonderry	20.29
9	Private Citizens & Property Lima	20.63	9	Private Citizens & Property Newtownabbey	19.17
10	Government (General) Lima	20.59	10	Private Citizens & Property Baghdad	18.87
11	Terrorists/Nonstate Militia Belfast	20.57	11	Transportation London	18.26
12	Business Lima	20.49	12	Business Baghdad	17.56
13	Private Citizens & Property Londonderry	20.29	13	Government (General) Baghdad	17.25
14	Private Citizens & Property Concepcion	19.65	14	Private Citizens & Property Istanbul	16.97
15	Airports & Aircraft Trujillo	19.54	15	Business Santiago	16.94
16	Private Citizens & Property San Miguel	19.34	16	Private Citizens & Property Armagh	16.77
17	Private Citizens & Property Newtownabbey	19.17	17	Business Manchester	16.55
18	Private Citizens & Property Baghdad	18.86	18	Government (General) Tuulo Barwaqo	16.52
19	Private Citizens & Property Ballymena	18.64	19	Military Basra	16.52
20	Private Citizens & Property Craigavon	18.61	20	Journalists & Media Bogota	16.52