How it works
Enter the title, author, date, URL and source type of a citation and the scorer grades it on five factors: domain authority, date recency, source type, named author and URL integrity. The weighted 0-100 score tells you whether the citation is trustworthy enough to publish.
Why this matters
AI assistants propagate citation trust transitively - if your page cites a flaky source, the assistant downgrades your page too. See how AI assistants choose citations for the full mechanism.
Ship it
- Prefer .gov, .edu and named non-profits over commercial blogs.
- Prefer primary research over aggregators.
- Strip tracking parameters before publishing URLs.
- Pair with the Citation Builder and Trust Signal Analyzer.