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What Type of Content Does ChatGPT Cite the Most?

What type of content does ChatGPT actually cite — news articles, reviews, forums, or documentation? This live report tracks the daily breakdown of citation content types over the past 30 days, so you can see exactly which formats ChatGPT prefers and how that's shifting.

What Type of Content Gets Cited by ChatGPT?

Based on Promptwatch data from Jan 1 - Feb 4, 2026. Based on 1,027,802 classified citations. Shows the percentage breakdown of citation content types per day. Only citations with a classified content type are included.

How we collect this data

We collect millions of prompt responses, citations, and click data from the actual user interfaces of major AI platforms — over 4 billion data points and growing. This gives us one of the largest and most authentic datasets on how AI search engines cite sources and recommend brands.

Real UI monitoring

Data straight from the interfaces of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews, and more.

4B+ data points

Over 4 billion analyzed citations, prompts, and responses — one of the largest AI search datasets available.

Continuously updated

Refreshed constantly so the trends you see reflect the latest behavior of AI search engines.

Aggregated & public

Published freely for the GEO community, based on aggregated, non-identifiable trends.

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