Dataset

Engine Citation Log — Eight-Engine Sample

Per-answer citation records from replaying a fixed prompt set across all eight tracked engines, including unlinked brand mentions and answer position.

CiteRank AI Research·14 May 2026·9 min readIllustrative data

DatasetCitationsEngines

Key takeaways

—Both linked citations and unlinked named mentions are recorded, so the attribution gap is visible in the data itself.
—Answer position is captured, which is what lets you weight a citation by whether it carried the recommendation.
—Replay identifiers let you measure run-to-run variance instead of assuming a single answer is representative.

Resource

Sample dataset

Placeholder dataset containing modelled records. Access is granted on request.

Records: 18,000 modelled citations
Format: JSONL
Engines: 8
Licence: CC BY 4.0

Request access

Schema

One citation observation per record.

›answer_id, prompt_id, engine, replay_index, captured_at.
›source_domain and source_url where the engine surfaced a link.
›brand_named — whether a tracked brand was named without a link.
›position — where in the answer the claim appeared.
›load_bearing — whether the claim carried the recommendation.

Caveats

Engines change between versions. Treat any single capture window as a snapshot, and compare like-for-like windows only.

Methodology, limitations and disclosure

Every CiteRank study states who produced it, what it measured and where it stops being reliable. The full scoring model is documented on the methodology page.

Author: CiteRank AI Research
Author role: CiteRank AI Research team — measurement, prompt-corpus design and scoring
Review: Internal editorial review by the CiteRank AI Research team. No external or academic peer review was conducted.
Published: 14 May 2026
Last updated: 14 May 2026
AI engines: Not engine-specific
Model versions: Specific model build identifiers are not disclosed by every vendor and are therefore not claimed here.
Industry scope: Cross-industry
Geographic scope: Global
Language scope: English
Sample size: Not disclosed for this entry
Conflicts of interest: CiteRank AI publishes this research and sells an AI visibility platform. No third party funded, commissioned or reviewed this entry.
Data availability: Sample dataset — available on request.

Limitations

Figures in this entry are modelled and clearly labelled illustrative. They demonstrate structure and method; they are not observed client results.
AI engines are non-deterministic: an identical prompt can return a different answer on replay, so every figure is a sampled estimate rather than a fixed value.
Engine vendors change retrieval and ranking behaviour without notice. Findings describe the sampling window stated above, not a permanent state.
Results describe the prompt corpus that was designed for this study. A different corpus for the same brand can produce a materially different picture.
This entry does not disclose a sample size, so its figures should not be treated as statistically representative.

Suggested citation

CiteRank AI Research (2026). Engine Citation Log — Eight-Engine Sample. CiteRank AI. https://www.citerank.in/research/dataset-engine-citation-log

← Back to the AI Research Centre