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The Citation Graph

See AI citations as they happen. We're mapping who gets cited, why they get chosen, and how authority flows across the AI ecosystem.

—Total Citations Tracked
—Sources in Graph
—Source Relationships

What You're Seeing

Real-Time Citations

Each particle represents a citation event—when ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google AI cites a source in response to a user query.

Authority Networks

Lines connect sources that are frequently cited together. These co-citation relationships reveal authority clusters in different topics.

The Authority Index

Larger particles have higher Authority Index scores—our composite metric measuring a source's influence in AI responses.

Why We're Building This

Google's breakthrough wasn't search—it was understanding that links between pages contain information about authority. They built the Link Graph, and it became the foundation of modern search.

AI is reshaping how information flows. When ChatGPT answers a question, it doesn't link—it cites. These citations form a new kind of network, one that reveals which sources AI systems actually trust.

The Citation Graph is our map of this new landscape. We track citations across AI platforms to understand:

  • →Which sources get cited most often, and in what contexts
  • →How authority flows between sources (who gets cited alongside whom)
  • →What patterns make content more likely to be selected
  • →How citation trends change over time

This data becomes the foundation for the Authority Index—our metric for measuring a source's influence in AI responses. Think Domain Authority, but for the AI era.

Want to Know Where You Stand?

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