# Which publications to pursue > Which publications AI engines cite for your buyers, category by category, and how to turn that evidence into a pitch list worth the budget. - Topic in: [Writing](https://christianlehman.com/blog) - URL: https://christianlehman.com/topics/publications - Machine URL: https://christianlehman.com/topics/publications.md ## Start with ### [Choose Publications AI Engines Already Cite for Your Buyers](https://christianlehman.com/blog/publication-strategy-ai-search-visibility) A five step audit a CMO can run in 30 minutes to approve publication targets AI engines already cite for category queries. ## More on this topic ### [Fierce Healthcare Is 2nd on News and 57th on Buying](https://christianlehman.com/blog/healthcare-publications-cited-ai-buying-answers-2026) Across six Healthcare Services buyer shapes, 35 of 600 ranked rows are editorial publications. On the news segment it is 25 of 100. ### [The Training Software Site AI Cites More Than Forbes](https://christianlehman.com/blog/education-training-pr-pitch-list-ai-citations-2026) eLearning Industry outranks Forbes in every Education and Training buyer shape where both appear, and the Index does not label it a publication. ### [Healthcare Software's Top Cited Source Isn't Press](https://christianlehman.com/blog/healthcare-software-citation-winner-vendor-blog-2026) In the Machine Relations Index's Healthcare Services segment, the top-citing 'editorial publication' domain is an EHR vendor's own site. ### [Two Publications With the Same AI Citation Rate Are Not the Same Buy](https://christianlehman.com/blog/publication-citation-rate-days-present-media-plan-2026) Of the 99 publications the Machine Relations Index scores, the median one is in the cited set on 24 of 130 observed days. ### [Buy Every Publication AI Cites in Your Category and You Still Miss Half the Answers](https://christianlehman.com/blog/editorial-placement-coverage-ceiling-2026) Across 86 buyer-question segments the best single publication is cited in a median 12.6% of answers; every cited publication summed reaches a median 51.0%. ### [Most Publications AI Engines Cite Answer Exactly One Buyer Question](https://christianlehman.com/blog/publication-buyer-question-coverage-pitch-list-2026) Of 1,238 publications AI engines cite, 47 hold a top-ten position on any published buyer question and 35 of those hold exactly one. ### [The HR Software Publications AI Engines Actually Cite](https://christianlehman.com/blog/hr-software-pr-pitch-list-ai-citations-2026) An HR software pitch list built from the first published buyer-choice citation leaderboard, with the seven-date evidence limit that bounds it. ### [The Enterprise Software Publications AI Engines Actually Cite](https://christianlehman.com/blog/enterprise-software-pr-pitch-list-ai-citations-2026) An enterprise software pitch list built from observed AI citations, split by buyer question. No trade publication holds the top slot in any of the six. ### [The Publications AI Cites for Your Industry News Are Not the Ones It Cites for Your Buyers](https://christianlehman.com/blog/news-pitch-list-vs-ai-buying-answer-2026) Across five categories, 72 of the 104 publications AI engines cite for industry news hold no top-100 slot on a published buyer question. ### [The Cybersecurity Publications AI Engines Actually Cite](https://christianlehman.com/blog/cybersecurity-pr-pitch-list-ai-citations-2026) A cybersecurity pitch list built from observed AI citations, split by the question a buyer asked, with the vendor-run properties competing for the same slots. ### [Which Publications Do AI Search Engines Actually Cite in 2026](https://christianlehman.com/blog/which-publications-ai-search-engines-cite-2026) AI engines skew toward certain page types, but the cited field is wide: 22,320 domains, 1,230 classified publications, no domain above 4.1% of its category. ### [How to Get Featured in Forbes for AI Visibility: A CMO Playbook](https://christianlehman.com/blog/how-to-get-featured-in-forbes-for-ai-visibility-2026) A practical playbook for earning Forbes coverage that AI engines can actually surface. ### [What a Wall Street Journal Pitch Has to Prove in 2026](https://christianlehman.com/blog/how-to-get-featured-in-wall-street-journal-2026) WSJ placement is now a direct AI citation input. Three editorial paths, the pitch mechanics that work, and what every CMO needs to know before reaching out. ## Other topics - [Budget and measurement](https://christianlehman.com/topics/budget-measurement) — What a CMO should fund when AI builds the shortlist, and how to measure whether it worked: budget splits, attribution, and the numbers to report. - [What to hand sales](https://christianlehman.com/topics/sales-handoff) — What marketing hands sales when buyers arrive with an AI-built shortlist: proof packs, claim checks, and the sentences a rep must not repeat. ## Machine-readable related links - [Canonical topic page](https://christianlehman.com/topics/publications) - [Blog index](https://christianlehman.com/blog) - [Machine sitemap](https://christianlehman.com/machine-sitemap.json) - [LLM instructions](https://christianlehman.com/llms.txt) --- *Machine-readable version of [Which publications to pursue](https://christianlehman.com/topics/publications)*