KYUNGPOOK MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL, cilt.61, sa.1, ss.61-74, 2021 (ESCI)
Let G = (V, E) be a connected graph. The eccentric connectivity index of G is defined by xi(C) (G) = Sigma(u)(is an element of V)((G)) deg(u)e(u), where deg(u) and e(u) denote the degree and eccentricity of the vertex u in G, respectively. In this paper, we introduce a new formulation of xi(C) that will be called the distance eccentric connectivity index of G and defined by