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. Shows the percentage breakdown of citation content types per day. Only citations with a classified content type are included.

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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 1 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

We collect data from the interfaces of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews, and more — the same results hundreds of millions of users see daily.

1B+ data points

Our dataset spans over 1 billion analyzed citations, prompts, and responses — giving us one of the largest AI search datasets available.

Aggregated & public

We publish these reports freely so the GEO and AI search community can learn from the data. All reports are based on aggregated, non-identifiable trends.

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