B
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48%
48% -- chatgpt citation share for Wikipedia (2026)
Wikipedia accounts for nearly 48% of all citations in ChatGPT.
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48%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Unspecified research
Primary
Tier C
https://www.amicited.com/blog/faq-sections-structured-qa-ai-extraction/ ↗
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FAQ Sections: Structured Q&A for AI Extraction
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Methodology
Blog citing unspecified research on ChatGPT citation patterns
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