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This study aimed to identify the topological reorganization of brain functional network in presbycusis with\/without cognitive decline by using graph theory analysis approaches based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Resting-state fMRI scans were obtained from 30 presbycusis patients with cognitive decline, 30 presbycusis patients without cognitive decline, and 50 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls. Graph theory was applied to analyze the topological properties of brain functional networks including global and nodal metrics, modularity, and rich-club organization.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>At the global level, the brain functional networks of all participants were found to possess small-world properties. Also, significant group differences in global network metrics were observed among the three groups such as clustering coefficient, characteristic path length, normalized characteristic path length, and small-worldness. At the nodal level, several nodes with abnormal betweenness centrality, degree centrality, nodal efficiency, and nodal local efficiency were detected in presbycusis patients with\/without cognitive decline. Changes in intra-modular connections in frontal lobe module and inter-modular connections in prefrontal subcortical lobe module were found in presbycusis patients exposed to modularity analysis. Rich-club nodes were reorganized in presbycusis patients, while the connections among them had no significant group differences.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Presbycusis patients exhibited topological reorganization of the whole-brain functional network, and presbycusis patients with cognitive decline showed more obvious changes in these topological properties than those without cognitive decline. 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