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<A HREF="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~zhang089/Papers/Li-Yanhua-Digraph-Laplacian-special%20issue%20of%20Internet%20Mathematics.pdf">Digraph Laplacian and the Degree of Asymmetry</A>:

> We introduce a metric – the largest singular value $\lambda$ of $(\Gamma − \Gamma^T )/2$, where $\Gamma$ is the Laplacian of a directed graph – to quantify
> and measure the degree of asymmetry in the graph. The degree of asymmetry
> captures the overall "directedness" of the graph.