Networks 2018

This year, we restricted our analysis to the English- and Arabic-speaking world, allowing us to focus on exciting detailed analyses such as a media analysis, and to pursue the question of how important a tweet actually is.

Global Area: English Language Wikipediasphere

This image shows direct Wikipedia connections between the 60 top Thought Leaders in this year’s global ranking. Each of the 16,167 dots corresponds to a single Wikipedia page, and each of the 55,454 lines to a link between pages. The size of the nodes represents the betweenness centrality value of each. The 20 people with the highest betweenness values are labelled. The logarithm OpenOrd (Liquid 45%, Expansion 55%) was used to visualize the network in the network software Gephi.
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Global Area: English Language Websphere

The most important media and communications platforms in the web networks of each Global Thought Leader are indicated. The 16 websites with the highest betweenness centrality values are labelled. In total, 4,999 nodes are visible. The 9,700 lines show links between the websites. The algorithm OpenOrd was also used for this analysis.
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Arabic Language Wikipediasphere

This image shows the Wikipedia network of all Arabic Thought Leaders. The size of each of the 2,040 nodes corresponds to the betweenness centrality values. In total, 161,937 lines are visible. The Thought Leaders with the highest betweenness centrality values are labelled in their order of ranking. The same layout algorithm was used as that for the English-speaking wikisphere.
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Arabic Language Wikipediasphere in Arabic Script

The Wikipedia network of all Arabic Thought Leaders in Arabic script.