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How to See Which Sources Were Cited in an AI Answer in AmICited

Read the Sources cited list beside each AI response in AmICited to see the exact ranked URLs an engine drew on when answering your prompt — and learn what to publish to get cited.

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Every AI answer is built on sources. The Sources cited panel lists the exact URLs an engine pulled from when it answered your prompt — a ranked map of the pages you’re competing against for that question.

The Sources cited list beside an AI response

Tip
Open the top two or three cited URLs and read them. They’re the pages the engine decided were the best answer — the clearest brief you’ll ever get for what your own content needs to cover.

Where to find it

In the Latest responses by provider panel on a prompt detail page, the Sources cited (N) list appears to the right of each response, alongside the full answer text.

What it shows

  • A ranked, numbered list of source URLs (e.g. #1.0, #2.0 …), in the order the engine drew on them.
  • The full path of each cited page, so you can see not just the domain but the specific article being cited.
  • The count in the heading (e.g. Sources cited (10)) tells you how many sources fed that single answer.

How to use it

  1. Study the top sources. The highest-ranked URLs are the most influential — understand what makes them citable (depth, structure, freshness, specificity).
  2. Spot patterns across engines. Switch provider tabs; if the same domains keep appearing, those are the authorities for this topic.
  3. Find your gap. If your pages are absent from the list, that’s the citation you’re missing — the fastest fix is content that answers this question better.
  4. Feed it back. Use Compare a URL (top of the page) to test one of your pages against these cited sources for the same prompt.

For the domain-level version of this — your top sources across all prompts — see the Sources section and the dashboard’s Top cited sources widget.

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