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Citation & Source Intelligence

AI answers are built from sources. Which pages do engines trust, and which of them leave you out?

What are AI citations?

AI citations are the web pages an engine links to or relies on when it answers. MentionX stores every cited URL, so you can see which domains shape recommendations in your category and where you are missing.

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Core on Spark and Nova · full monitoring on Galaxy

The formula

How Citation & Source Intelligence is calculated: Citation share

Citation share=

citations of your pages

citations of all tracked brands' pages

Answers with citations640

Example scan

Unique domains118

G2, Capterra, Reddit, docs…

Your citations41

Example numbers

Citation share9%

Versus all tracked brands

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Metrics related to Citation & Source Intelligence: Three numbers that tell the full story.

Top domains

The sites engines cite most when they recommend in your category.

Missing sources

Pages that cite competitors but not you: your outreach and content list.

Full monitoring on Galaxy

Core citation views on Spark and Nova; full source monitoring on Galaxy.

Guessing

Guessing vs knowing the sources: Engines lean on pages you can influence.

Without sources

You publish more content and hope engines notice.

With sources

The review site, forum thread and comparison page engines cite when they pick a rival, and which ones leave you out.

Each recommendation is traced to the URLs the engine cited, where it cites any.

Raise it

How to improve your Citation & Source Intelligence: From the number to the fix.

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Citation & Source Intelligence FAQ

Citation & Source Intelligence FAQ: Questions about the metric.

How it is counted, what a good number is, and how to move it.

It varies by category and prompt. Review sites, comparison articles, forums and vendor docs are common. MentionX shows the exact URLs cited in your answers.

The share of citations that point to your pages, compared with every tracked brand's pages.

Engines recommend what their sources support. Appearing in the pages they cite is one of the most direct ways to change an answer.

Citations are stored whenever an engine returns them. Some engines cite more than others.

Yes, on every plan. The Social tab lists the social, community and review pages engines cited in your scan, which engines cited them, for which buyer questions, and whether those answers named you or only competitors. It reads the stored citations; MentionX does not read the pages themselves.

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