I received my answer - thank you!

I guess you found that the first page of each profile of ResearchGate members display the total number of citations. However, please note that this is the real number of citations only in rare cases. No platform is complete with regard to citations. See also these discussions:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/missing_citation_number

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_some_of_my_citations_not_shown2

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_the_citation_is_not_shown

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_add_citation_on_research_gate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_include_all_citations_on_RG_and_Google_scholar_citing_your_manuscript

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_add_missing_citations_on_Google_scholar_Research_gate_and_Scopus

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_add_references

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anybody_know_how_we_can_add_the_missing_citations_in_Research_Gate_as_will_as_Google_Scholar_profile

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_any_know_how_can_I_add_missing_citations_to_google_scholar_and_resaerch_gate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_method_to_add_missing_citation_of_your_work_in_RG_As_most_of_the_papers_have_more_citations_as_per_google_scholer_but_very_low_in_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_add_citations_in_google_scholar_and_Research_Gate_for_our_articles

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Citations_from_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/citations_in_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_fix_missing_citations

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_add_missing_citation

https://www.researchgate.net/post/I_have_4_citations_in_Google_scholar_can_these_citations_be_captured_by_RG

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_if_I_have_citations_in_the_research_gate_indexed_papers_that_research_gate_does_not_show_them

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_link_my_articles_on_research_gate_to_google_scholar

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_link_Research_Gate_article_citations_to_Google_Scholar_and_vice-versa

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_someone_help_me_understand_why_there_a_difference_in_the_number_of_citations_shown_in_a_persons_Researchgate_and_Google_Scholar_account

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_is_citation_count_of_research_articles_different_in_Research_gate_from_that_of_google_scholar

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why-does-my-article-citations-appear-in-google-scholar-but-not-included-in-research-gate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why-some-citations-are-not-recorded-which-are-found-in-google-scholar

Okay Susanne Noll great question what is the answer you found? Wolfgang R. Dick as usual very very thorough, but that is a heck of a lot of reading. I must admit either I am too lazy or just plain intimidated. I note that Google scholar profiles are listed. That would have been my answer since a diligent researcher can add papers to their profile manually as well as automatically and once entered any citations in Scholar's database to that article are counted. It is not perfect but there is no cost to the author so...

Thanks hope this helps

Prof YUKNA