Linton C. Freeman

Thinkers1927 to 2018Sociologist

Works

  • Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification, Social Networks, 1979

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Known for

A founder of social network analysis. His 1979 paper sorted the many centrality measures into three conceptions, degree, betweenness, and closeness, and gave each a standard formula, still the field's reference.

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