AI Citability Scoring Skill

Core Insight

AI language models cite passages that meet specific structural criteria. Research from Princeton, Georgia Tech, and IIT Delhi (2024) found that GEO-optimized content achieves 30-115% higher visibility in AI-generated responses. The key finding: AI systems preferentially extract and cite passages that are 134-167 words long, self-contained (understandable without surrounding context), fact-rich (containing specific statistics, dates, or named entities), and directly answer a question in the first 1-2 sentences.

This is fundamentally different from traditional SEO copywriting, which optimizes for keyword density and user engagement metrics. GEO citability optimizes for extractability -- the ease with which an AI system can pull a passage from your content and present it as a direct answer.

Citability Scoring Rubric (0-100)

Category 1: Answer Block Quality (30% of total score)

This measures whether content contains clear, quotable answer passages that AI systems can extract verbatim.

Scoring Criteria:

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