Exploring the Node Importance and Its Influencing Factors in the Railway Freight Transportation Network in China

Table 5

Top-ranked provinces in 2005 and 2016 based on PageRank.

2005			2016
Rank	Province	PageRank	Rank	Province	PageRank
1	Guangdong	0.063	1	Sichuan	0.087
2	Hebei	0.062	2	Yunnan	0.081
3	Hunan	0.054	3	Guangxi	0.067
4	Guangxi	0.051	4	Guizhou	0.06
5	Sichuan	0.049	5	Guangdong	0.055
6	Jiangsu	0.049	6	Chongqing	0.046