B
Evidence Grade B
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Aging
30%
30% -- ai citation lift for GEO Cite Sources method (GPT-3.5-turbo) (2024)
The Princeton GEO paper found that the Cite Sources method produces a 30–40% PAWC citation lift across approximately 10,000 queries on GPT-3.5-turbo.
- Reported as a range of 30–40% across the top-3 optimization methods
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Value
30%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
Sample Size
10,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Princeton (Aggarwal et al.)
Primary
Tier A
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Original Research
Princeton (Aggarwal et al.)
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Methodology
Princeton GEO paper (Aggarwal et al., arXiv:2311.09735, KDD 2024); range 30-40%, midpoint used; Position-Adjusted Word Count metric
Methodology documented
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GEO Cite Sources method (GPT-3.5-turbo): 30% ai citation lift. Source: Princeton (Aggarwal et al.) (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/geo-cite-sources-citation-lift
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