Research Article

Identifying Super-Spreader Nodes in Complex Networks

Table 2

Comparison of simulation results from different measures (including our proposed method) in experiments using the real-world networks shown in Table 1.

Network name
Giant connected component (GCC)
and = 50
DegreeBetweennessCloseness-coreNeighbor-corePageRankProposed

ca-AstroPh
ca-CondMat*
ca-GrQc*
ca-HepPh
ca-HepTh*
Jazz-Musicians
Email-Contacts*
Email-Enron
CelegansNeural
Dolphins
LesMis
NetScience*
PolBlogs*

Inside leading group number:979511712
Average rank:3.46155.00003.84615.46153.04.69232.6153

Network result shown in Figure 1.
Bold: measurement result is inside the leading network group.
Subscript: rank of network in the measurement.