How to Check Your Total Citations in AmICited

Total Citations is the raw count of how many times AI engines cited your brand across your tracked prompts in the selected period. It’s the volume number behind your percentage-based metrics.

Where to find it

It’s the first of the four counter cards in the row just below the headline metrics on the Dashboard. In the example it shows 44, with ▲ +44.0 vs previous period and a small sparkline showing when those citations landed.

What counts as a citation

A citation is a single instance of an AI engine referencing your domain in its answer to one of your tracked prompts. One prompt run can produce several citations (across different engines), and the same page can be cited many times. Total Citations sums all of them for the current filter scope.

How to read it

• The number is your absolute citation volume for the period.
• The vs previous period change tells you the direction of travel — +44.0 means you gained 44 citations compared with the previous window of the same length.
• The sparkline shows the shape of that activity: a flat line with one spike means your citations are clustered around specific days (often right after content went live or was re-crawled).

How to use it

1. Track volume alongside share. Total Citations can rise simply because you added more prompts. Read it next to Share of Voice to know whether you’re genuinely winning more of the conversation or just measuring more of it.
2. Tie spikes to actions. Use the sparkline to connect jumps in citations to content you published or prompts you added.
3. Change the date range at the top of the page to compare months, or narrow to a single engine to see which one drives most of your volume.