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CC BY 4.0 · Attribution terms

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The CITE Index is published openly so journalists, analysts, brand teams, and AI-search researchers can use it without friction. The licence is permissive. The only thing we ask in return is a citation that points readers back to the specific edition that produced the number.

01 · Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Every edition, finding, chart, and methodology page on The CITE Index is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. You may copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you give proper attribution.

02 · What counts as proper attribution

A link, a date, and a name

Attribution under CC BY 4.0 has three required elements. For The CITE Index we ask you to follow this specific form so the citation chain stays clean:

  1. 01A hyperlink to the specific edition, finding, or methodology page you cited — not just to cite.solutions. Permanent edition URLs are the form /state-of-ai-india/{vertical}/reports/{date}.
  2. 02The phrase "The CITE Index · cite.solutions" placed next to or below the quote, chart, or data point.
  3. 03The date of the edition you cited (the date in the URL is the IST publication date).

If your medium can't hyperlink — print, broadcast, slides exported to PDF — write the full URL out in text. The point of attribution is that a reader can find their way back to the source we're showing our work on.

03 · Examples

Three examples of correct attribution

In a blog post or article

According to The CITE Index · cite.solutions, Ather led India's electric two-wheeler share of voice at 18.4% on ChatGPT on 19 May 2026.

Under a chart or screenshot

Source: The CITE Index · cite.solutions · Edition of 19 May 2026

In a research footnote

Cite Solutions Research (2026). The CITE Index · India Edition · Electric 2-Wheelers, 19 May 2026. cite.solutions/state-of-ai-india/electric-scooters/reports/2026-05-19

04 · What you may NOT do

The two limits we draw

You may not misrepresent the data — selectively quoting a movement without the context the edition provides, or omitting the dated, daily nature of the measurement to imply a single snapshot is a permanent state, will get a public correction from us pointing back to the original edition.

You may not imply endorsement by Cite Solutions of any brand, product, agency, or campaign. The CITE Index is a measurement instrument. It does not endorse the brands it measures, the agencies that work on them, or any commentary written about it.

05 · Brand names & logos

Brands belong to brands

The brand names, marks, and logos that appear throughout the study belong to their respective owners. They are reproduced under nominative fair use for the purpose of measuring and discussing those brands' visibility in AI-generated answers. Nothing on this site implies a relationship between Cite Solutions and the brands it tracks.

If you are a brand owner and would like a correction, an additional disclosure, or a clarification posted alongside an edition, email research@cite.solutions.

06 · Corrections policy

When we get something wrong, the correction is permanent

If a published edition contains a factual or methodological error, we append a dated correction note to that edition's page and never silently re-write history. The correction is visible in place of, not in addition to, the original mistake — so a citation that pointed to the old number resolves to the corrected page with the chain of changes visible.

07 · Contact

One inbox for everything

For licence questions, correction requests, data requests, partnership enquiries, or to flag an edition that looks wrong — write to research@cite.solutions.