Apparently it is long known that google scholar has troubles to update preprints with their published version, if the preprint has been indexed for too long.
What is not known however, what the best strategy is to circumvent this bug. Shall i accept the addition of bioRxiv preprints to my google scholar profile, and hope it will be at some point updated with its final published version? Or should i reject the preprint and wait for scholar to crawl the actual publication, or should i add it manually?
What i was also not been able to find out was if google scholar will pool preprint and published versions of a paper for the citation count.
You can edit/update an entry in your GS profile by hand, for details click on The description of one of my articles isn't correct. How do I fix it? in https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html#setup
If the preprint and the published version of the paper are listed as separate entries in your GS profile, you can merge them, also by hand, for details click on My profile shows the same article twice. How do I fix this? in https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html#setup
In this case the citation counts should, more or less, be added, so this could be a reasonably good course of action, but there are caveats, see I merged a version with 27 citations with the one with 4 citations. How come the merged article has 30 citations - shouldn't it be 31? in https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html#setup
The first option would apply in my case, but after editing the article, it still links to biorxive, which i was trying to avoid.
I am not sure as I cannot find it mentioned at the link from my previous answer but I have an impression that while merging two items you can choose which one is the "main" one, so if this is the case you can choose the published version as the main one.
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