Harmonic Centrality in Some Graph Families

Abstract

One of the more recent measures of centrality in social network analysis is the normalized harmonic centrality. A variant of the closeness centrality, harmonic centrality sums the inverse of the geodesic distances of each node to other nodes where it is 0 if there is no path from one node to another. It is then normalized by dividing it by m-1, where m is the number of nodes of the graph. In this paper, we present notions regarding the harmonic centrality of some important classes of graphs.