“…The inventors of the Laplacian energy (Gutman & Zhou, 2006), as well as the scholars who later studied it, were solely interested in its mathematical properties. However, in recent years, the Laplacian energy has gained popularity for a variety of technical applications, mainly in the area of image analysis and pattern recognition (Luyuan et al, 2010), (Song et al, 2010), (Meng & Xiao, 2011), (Xiao et al, 2011), (Huigang et al, 2013), (Bai et al, 2014), (Deepa et al, 2016), (Pournami & Govindan, 2017), (Zou et al, 2018). In all the quoted papers, the Laplacian energy was computed according to Eq.…”