Korn, A.; Schubert, A.; Telcs, A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 388 (2009) 11, pp. 2221-2226
We propose a new node centrality measure in networks, the lobby index, which is inspired by Hirsch’s h-index. It is shown that in scale-free networks with exponent α the distribution of the l-index has power tail with exponent α(α+1). Properties of the l-index and extensions are discussed.