Claude AI Health Citations Rely on Established Institutional Sources
A study analyzing Anthropic's Claude AI found that 97.8% of its health citations come from established institutional sources. Researchers applied the Authority Signals Framework to a sample of 542 sources from 10,038 citations across 3,075 consumer health questions. The study highlights the integrity of sources used by LLMs in health contexts.
Key facts
- 97.8% of citations from institutional sources
- 10,038 citations analyzed
- 3,075 consumer health questions used
- Authority Signals Framework applied
- 542 sources sampled
- Data from HealthSearchQA dataset
- Study by Jacques et al., 2026
- Anthropic's Claude AI examined
Entities
Institutions
- Anthropic
- Google Research