AI citation research
Studies I have run on how AI engines choose what to cite, listed only once they are live, with a short summary and a link to the full write-up. Studies published on the Wellows blog link there.
What AI citation research has Khadija Zaman published?
Khadija Zaman has published a cross-engine AI citation overlap study on the Wellows blog covering January to June 2026, a re-test of that study against a permutation null that revised two of its headline findings, and a 94-day query fan-out experiment whose results were posted publicly by Wellows' COO. Each study states its data window and source.
I Built a Test Designed to Break My Own Study. Two Findings Didn't Survive.
How I rebuilt my cross-engine AI citation study from scratch, ran it against a permutation null, and revised two headline findings that didn't hold up.
Read the re-test →Cross-engine AI citation overlap study
Which sources ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI surfaces cite for the same queries, and how much the engines agree. The original study the re-test on this site examines.
Read on wellows.com →The 94-day query fan-out experiment
The experiment behind the Query Fan-Out Generator, posted publicly by Wellows' COO. Search Engine Land later used the tool to demonstrate topic clusters for AI search.
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