#Citations

“Wikipedia for Researchers: Building reliable knowledge through citations” is a new free course on WikiLearn! Co-developed by Kath Burton, Carlos Areia, and Asaf Bartov, it brings toget…

Citations signal content authority to AI engines, replacing backlinks as the primary trust metric for answer engine visibility.

A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations “were not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers,

Discover what AI brand mentions are and how they differ from AI citations to enhance your brand's online presence.

Given how often we’ve seen AI-generated fake citations show up in legal filings and even legal decisions, you’d think the lesson would have sunk in by now: if you’re going to use …

The percentage of Google top 10 pages cited by AI Overview dropped from 76% to 38%. Even ranking #1 on Google can get skipped by AI. AEO aims to have

An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023. An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.

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Please mods let me know if I can ask this here. Genuinely have never done this and I’m getting ghosted. My goal is to get citations on Wikipedia within 6 months.

South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI…

A GEO strategy should focus on getting cited while also building a brand known for reliable problem-solving.

I’m seeing our brand mentioned in ChatGPT and other LLM responses, but none of those mentions have a citation link. At this stage, I don’t even know which one is better for SEO purposes.…

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IBM urges brands to adopt a 12-part GEO playbook amid AI's takeover of search visibility. With 75% potentially shifting to agents soon, citations beat traffic. CEOs must lead the charge across teams.

AI search is changing how visibility works. Users are getting direct answers instead of clicking links, which means fewer chances to drive traffic.…

David Oks’s essay on citations is not central to my interests, but I know there are lots of Hatters who do science and will probably have things to say; I myself found it extremely enlightening. I’ll quote the start and let you click through for the rest: