B
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7 -- average citation position for ChatGPT (Reddit sources) (2025)
The average citation position for Reddit sources on ChatGPT is 6.7.
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7
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
FogTrail
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Tier B
https://fogtrail.ai/blog/chatgpt-vs-grok-source-ecosystems ↗
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ChatGPT vs Grok: Two Engines, Two Completely Different Source Ecosystems
ChatGPT vs Grok: Two Engines, Two Completely Different Source Ecosystems
ChatGPT's top cited source is Wikipedia at 7.8% of all citations. Grok cites an average of 24 sources per answer, the highest of any AI engine, and spreads them across YouTube, Reddit, Medium, and X. These two engines are not p…
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ChatGPT (Reddit sources): 7 average citation position. Source: FogTrail (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/reddit-citation-position-chatgpt
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