How CiteHawk Measures AI Recommendations

The full methodology behind the CiteHawk AI Index, written for journalists and skeptics: collection, scoring, freezing, and the limits we publish alongside the numbers.

5 pagesPDFJuly 2026

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How prompts are selected and collections are run
How recommendation scores are computed, step by step
Why editions freeze, and what immutability buys you
Published limitations, so you know exactly what the Index is not

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