SOURCE STUDIES
AI Citation & Source Study Methodology
Citation studies can reveal the public evidence environment around a category. They cannot, on their own, establish causation or guarantee that a source changed a recommendation.
SOURCE STUDIES
Source Capture Fields
Exact URL
Canonicalized destination recorded at collection time.
Source class
Owned, earned editorial, platform, community, review, reference or public record.
Claim supported
The visible statement associated with the source.
Recurrence
How often the source appears within the defined sample.
Freshness
Publication, update and access dates when available.
Independence
Declared commercial or organizational relationship where known.
SOURCE STUDIES
Interpretation Limits
A linked source may support only one statement. A frequently cited domain may reflect availability, authority, recency or query fit; the study will not assign motive to a model. Unlinked influence cannot be claimed as observed without a separate retrieval method.
SOURCE STUDIES
Technical Source Note
OpenAI documents OAI-SearchBot as the crawler used to surface websites in ChatGPT search, while Google states that crawlability, internal links, textual content and matching structured data remain relevant to its AI search features. These primary documents define access conditions; they do not promise inclusion or ranking.
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