Figure 4
An illustrative example of the comparison between hierarchical closeness and other popular centralities for the prediction of total support. (A) Comparison with degree centrality. The highest closeness centrality outperforms the highest degree centrality in total support from the other nodes. (B) Comparison with betweenness centrality. The highest closeness centrality outperforms the highest betweenness centrality in total support from the remaining nodes. The color gradient represents the total support of a node ranging from −(n − 1) to + (n − 1), where n is the number of nodes. Note that hierarchical closeness and closeness exhibit the same ranking result in these two networks.
