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17.3%
17.3% -- average citation improvement from document structure for AI search citations (2026)
Document structure alone drove a 17.3% average citation improvement in an arXiv study.
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17.3%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
arXiv
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Tier A
https://betteraisearch.com/tactics/schema-markup-ai-search ↗
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Structured Data SEO for AI Search
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arXiv
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arXiv study testing document structure independently of content quality
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AI search citations: 17.3% average citation improvement from document structure. Source: arXiv (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/document-structure-citation-improvement
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