Studying the Regional Cyberspace by Exploiting Internet Sequential Information Flows

Table 4

Three indicators and their meanings.

Indicators’ names	Meanings of indicators
the intensity of active connection (Xa)	used to measure the active connection between Fuzhou and other research units; the greater the value means the research units have greater impacts on Fuzhou
the intensity of passive connection (Xb)	used to measure the interest of other research units in Fuzhou; the larger the value indicates that the units are more willing to accept the information from Fuzhou
the intensity of total connection	used to measure the intensity of the total linkage between Fuzhou and other research units; the larger the value, the greater the intensity of interaction