B
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62% -- share of most cited pages published in last 6 months for AI search most-cited pages (2026)
62% of most-cited pages in AI search were published in the last 6 months, according to Lantern's analysis of 200 million AI citations.
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62%
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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
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Lantern
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Tier A
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Rethinking marketing roles for the agentic era
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AI search most-cited pages: 62% share of most cited pages published in last 6 months. Source: Lantern (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/most-cited-pages-published-last-6-months-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/most-cited-pages-published-last-6-months-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>62%</strong> -- share of most cited pages published in last 6 months for AI search most-cited pages<br><small>Source: Lantern (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/most-cited-pages-published-last-6-months-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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