AI Citation Analysis Tool

AI Citation Analysis is a Similarweb tool that reveals which domains and URLs are being cited by AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Mode when generating answers about your tracked topics. It shows you the exact sources shaping AI responses in your space , including their influence scores, the topics they're linked to, and the specific prompts they're affecting.

The Domain Influence Score measures how much weight a particular domain carries in shaping AI-generated answers across your tracked topics. A higher score means that domain is being cited more frequently and across more prompts. The score helps you quickly identify which websites hold the most authority in AI search within your category, so you can prioritize them for outreach, content partnerships, or digital PR.

Yes. Beyond domain-level data, the tool drills down to individual URLs, each with its own Influence Score, source category, associated topic, and the number of prompts it appears in. This URL-level detail lets you identify exactly which articles, pages, or threads are driving AI citations in your space, and model your own content strategy around what's already working.

By identifying the domains and URLs AI platforms trust most in your category, you can reverse-engineer what makes those sources authoritative and apply those principles to your own content. You can also use the data to identify high-influence publishers for digital PR and affiliate partnerships, spot Reddit threads or Quora discussions being cited and engage with them strategically, and find content gaps where competitors are earning citations that you're not.

Yes. The tool shows every URL and source being cited across your tracked topics, including pages from competitor sites. You can see which competitor content is earning AI's trust, what topics it's associated with, and how its influence score compares to your own domain, giving you a clear picture of where competitors have an authority advantage and where you have room to close the gap.

The tool tracks citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Perplexity. You can filter by platform to see whether citation patterns differ across AI tools, which is particularly useful since citation sets can vary significantly from one platform to another, and a source that dominates in ChatGPT may have far less influence in Perplexity.

Traditional backlink tools track which websites link to your pages for SEO purposes. AI Citation Analysis is fundamentally different, it tracks which sources AI platforms are actively pulling from when generating answers, regardless of whether those sources link to you.