Amazon's citation

Citation links @ Amazon by Dr. Mohamed Taher

Search Inside This Book a unique feature of Amazon (more info)

In an effort to mining the Web, as well as,

discovering knowledge from hypermedia

Amazon has created a new trend in the world of Citations

Amazon: Cited and Citing References, This feature belongs to the ones mentioned in the previous section, but because it is a hot and often misunderstood issue, and a brutally ill-implemented feature, it deserves special treatment because Amazon does it well (with a few exceptions) even in the early days of its debut. Continue reading... Reviewed by Peter Jacso, December 2005,

Book cites

October 27, 2003

Posted by Eszter

Starting today, searches on Amazon.com will look for your terms in the entire text of over 120,000 books. Not only do you get a list of books that cite an author or mention a concept, but you can also view a pdf copy of the page where the citation occurs.

As an academic, this serves as an extremely helpful complementary tool to the Social Science Citation Index (or other citation index equivalents), which allow similar searches for journal articles.

Amazon hypercites

Friday, November 12, 2004

Bezos blows my mind. Again.

There's something new going on at Amazon, and it's pretty amazing. I guess I should have seen it coming, but I didn't. About 15 years ago, well before there was a world wide web, I wrote a longish piece that ended up as the introduction to an 11-volume Datapro series on workgroup computing. Part of my rambling and speculative thumbsucker described how various structural parts of a book are analogous to hyperlinks: the table of contents links to chapters; index entries link to pages where those terms appear; superscripted numbers in the text link to footnotes; books cited in the text and footnotes link to the bibliography.

Geeking with Greg

Rageboy apparently saw Amazon.com doing an A/B test of citation links between books. It seems to be gone now, but Rageboy's post includes lengthy descriptions of the new feature.

Paul Bausch also noticed the new feature and has a link to a still-active Amazon help page with a little more information about it.

See my Listmania on cited, citing and citable Amazon: and All-a-do-about Amazon's Marketing

In doing this I sincerely acknowledge (rather cite) my gratitude to the master who initiated the field of Citation analysis: Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. See more about The Father of Citation Analysis

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