B
Evidence Grade B
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56.5%
56.5% -- share of brand citations without link for AI search platforms (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity) (2026)
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Evidence graded
Value
56.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
107,432
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
AmIcited
Primary
Tier A
https://www.amicited.com/it/author/vzeman/index/ ↗
Source Article
Viktor Zeman
Original Research
AmIcited
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Methodology
Share of 107,432 analyzed brand citations that included no citation link
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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AI search platforms (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity): 56.5% share of brand citations without link. Source: AmIcited (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-no-link-share-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-no-link-share-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>56.5%</strong> -- share of brand citations without link for AI search platforms (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity)<br><small>Source: AmIcited (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-no-link-share-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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