AI Citability Scoring Skill Core Insight AI language models cite passages that meet specific structural criteria. Research from Princeton, Georgia Tech, and IIT Delhi (2024) found that GEO-optimized content achieves 30-115% higher visibility in AI-generated responses. The key finding: AI systems preferentially extract and cite passages that are 134-167 words long , self-contained (understandable without surrounding context), fact-rich (containing specific statistics, dates, or named entities), and directly answer a question in the first 1-2 sentences. This is fundamentally different from trad…