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Citation frequency

What is Citation frequency?

Citation frequency is a measure of how often an AI system names or links a given source across a set of relevant prompts.

Who uses the term Citation frequency?

Citation frequency is used by measurement tool vendors and by practitioners reporting on AI visibility to clients. It is one of the few metrics in this field with an agreed shape.

Related measures include share of answer and entity confidence, both of which attempt to quantify the same underlying question.

How does Citation frequency differ from related terms?

Citation frequency measures an outcome. AEO, GEO and LLM seeding are methods intended to move it.

The metric is sensitive to prompt selection and to model version, so figures are only comparable within a consistent test set. A citation frequency quoted without its prompt set is not a meaningful number.

What does AEO GEO LLM Seeding AI SEO - Or Whatever The F$ck You Want to Call It say about Citation frequency?

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Related terms

  • AI visibility

    AI visibility is the extent to which a brand or entity is named, cited and recommended by AI systems in response to relevant questions.

  • AI Overviews

    AI Overviews is Google's feature that places an AI-generated summary with linked sources above the conventional search results.

  • Generative Engine Optimisation

    Generative Engine Optimisation is the practice of influencing whether and how a source is cited within the text that a generative AI system produces.

  • LLM seeding

    LLM seeding is the practice of publishing and distributing information about an entity across independent sources so that large language models can retrieve, corroborate and repeat it.

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