{"id":484,"date":"2025-12-03T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanobservations.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:33:21","slug":"study-what-drives-chatgpt-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanobservations.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/study-what-drives-chatgpt-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: What Drives ChatGPT citations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Study: What Drives ChatGPT Citations<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“The question isn’t whether AI will cite your work\u2014it’s whether your work remains worth citing when the citators are no longer human.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Summary<\/a><\/p>\n

This SE Ranking research study analyzed 129,000 domains and 216,524 pages across 20 niches to identify what actually drives ChatGPT citations. The findings challenge common assumptions about AI optimization.<\/p>\n

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Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The research reveals that sites with over 32,000 referring domains are 3.5 times more likely to be cited by ChatGPT than those with up to 200 referring domains, <\/span>and high-trust domains earn almost 4 times more citations than low-trust sites<\/p>\n

What Works:<\/strong><\/p>\n