39%
of cited sources churn out every week, averaged across 7 week-over-week transitions and 3 platforms.
Scope: cross-platform baseline
The LLM Citation Drift Report · India’s First · Edition 01
39% of the sources LLM platforms cite this week get replaced by next week.
We tracked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode for 8 straight weeks. 83,633 citations. 2,191 domains. This report shows what stays, what disappears, and why staying cited is the real game.
39%Weekly churn
8Weeks tracked
3AI platforms
83,633Citations
2,191Unique domains
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39%
Mean weekly
citation loss
citation loss
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44.8%
weekly churn on ChatGPT, the most volatile platform. Google AI Mode holds its sources longest at 31.8%.
Platform variance: ChatGPT vs Google
70%
of all cited domains last less than 4 weeks. Only 15.1% stay cited across all 8 weeks.
Survival metric: half-life breakdown
93%
of all citations go to just 15% of domains. A small, stable core takes almost everything.
Distribution: power-law concentration
81%
of citations go to domains cited on all three platforms. Cross-platform presence is the multiplier.
Synergy: cross-model authority
53.4%
of citations in personal loans go to NBFC domains. Banks take 23.1%. News and PR sites take 1.2%.
Vertical deep dive: category share
No week was stable
Week-over-week churn of cited sources across all three platforms. It never fell below 32%.
Standard Weekly Cycle
Peak Volatility Cycle
Week-on-week churn rate (%). Average across all 3 LLM platforms. Source: LLM Citation Drift Report, Techmagnate, 2026.
Research thesis // Takeaway
Getting cited by AI is not the hard part.Staying cited is.
Industry first · India · Edition 01
The LLM Citation
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SAMPLE VOLUME:83,633 CITATIONS
CHURN RATE:39% PER WEEK
SECTOR BENCHMARK:PERSONAL LOANS
Personal Loan category · 8-week continuous tracking · Prepared by Techmagnate
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How this study was done
Empirical inquiry across three production LLMs using continuous weekly sampling. Read the structural disclosures to understand the criteria and calculation models.
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01 //What we tracked
A fixed set of personal loan prompts, run every week for 8 consecutive weeks on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. Every source URL cited in every response was logged: 83,633 citations across 2,191 unique domains.
02 //What counts as a citation
A citation is a source link the AI platform lists while building its answer. It is different from a brand mention in the answer text. This study measures citations only: who gets cited, and who stays cited.
03 //How churn is calculated
For each week-over-week transition, we compare the set of cited domains against the previous week. The share of domains that no longer appear is that week’s churn. The 39% headline is the average across all 7 transitions and all 3 platforms.
04 //Where the data comes from
All data is proprietary, collected on Techmagnate’s own tracking infrastructure from publicly available AI platform responses. The results are reproducible by anyone running the same prompts over the same period.