2. Master navigational search tools

2.1 Browsing by quotation

From a bibliographic document, it is often possible to access the references cited by this document, by following hypertext links.

Google Scholar [FIC 1057] goes a step further, providing access to the sources that have cited the document in question.

These citations are used not only for navigation, but also to assess the reputation of documents: the number of citations received by a document is the basis for calculating...