Core/periphery structure models: An alternative methodological proposal

✍ Scribed by Ana Salomé García Muñiz; Carmen Ramos Carvajal

• Book ID: 104093055
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-8733
• DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.11.001

✦ Synopsis

The idea of a structure made up of a core and periphery is a common, classic paradigm in many fields of science. Following this line, in 1999, researchers Stephen Borgatti and Martin Everett developed a model of structural analysis based on the delimitation of a core formed by a group of densely connected actors, in contrast to a class of actors, more loosely connected and forming the periphery of the system.

The original approach of these authors is modified, employing measures that, in our opinion, show a larger degree of coherence and accuracy in the proposed objectives.