How to Track Citations Over Time by Source in AmICited

The Citations over time chart shows the rhythm of how AI engines draw on sources for your topics — daily citation volume across your tracked sources, so you can spot bursts of activity and steady trends.

Where to find it

It’s the Citations over time chart near the top of the Sources page, subtitled “How often AI engines pulled from your tracked sources — daily citations, last 30 days.”

How to read it

• The line(s) show daily citation counts over the selected date range.
• The view tabs (top-right) reshape it: By provider colors a line per AI engine; Top domains breaks it out by site; Top URLs by individual page.
• The legend below shows each series and its current daily rate.
• Spikes mark days when a lot of citing happened at once — often when engines re-crawled or new content landed.

How to use it

1. Read the trend, not one day. Direction over weeks matters more than a single day’s dot.
2. Use By provider to see whether one engine is driving most of the citation activity for your space.
3. Use Top domains / Top URLs to spot a source that’s suddenly getting cited a lot — a competitor page worth studying.
4. Change the date range at the top of the page to zoom the trend in or out.