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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2065</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A study of a variant of neighborhood version of degree-based indices for trees</article-title>
      </title-group>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Dehgardi</surname>
            <given-names>Nasrin</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>35</fpage>
      <lpage>47</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>Recently, Mondal et al. introduced several new indices based on neighborhood degree sum of vertices, which received increasing research attention. In this paper, we consider a variant of these indices named sixth neighborhood degree index. We give the minimum value of the sixth neighborhood degree index within the set of trees with ν vertices and maximum degree Δ and the corresponding minimal trees are introduced.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Sixth neighborhood degree index</kwd>
        <kwd>Trees</kwd>
        <kwd>Lower bound</kwd>
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