What is Co-citation?

[darkhunt]

I couldn’t find a proper definition for co-citation. Can anyone explain me about co-citation?

 

[sashasteve]

Co-Citation comes when one or more site could be identified by any single web page or site. Search Engines simply analyzes the different back link profiles of top ten or twenty ranking websites to the source authoritative websites commonly called as the common links or in other words co-citations.