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Do authorship and dates affect AI citations in Next.js (App Router)

Answer engines weight recency and attribution when choosing between sources that say similar things. An undated page loses to a dated one, and the fix is structured-data fields you already have the values for.

The fix for Next.js (App Router)

13x detects your framework from the response and hands you this version rather than the generic one — below 50% confidence it hedges and gives you the generic one instead.

ts code
// In the page's metadata export
export const metadata: Metadata = {
  authors: [{ name: "Your Name" }],
  openGraph: {
    type: "article",
    publishedTime: "2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z",
    modifiedTime: new Date().toISOString(),
  },
};

For content from a CMS or MDX, drive modifiedTime off the record's own updated-at field rather than new Date(), so it reflects the content and not the build.

On a different stack? The general version of this fix explains what 13x checks and why it matters, without assuming a framework.

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