in Scholar Google I have over 2000 Citations, in Research Gate only 1319.
Thank you for explaining. Maybe Scholar ist better organized?
Peter
There are few similar post on RG that dealing with same issue, you can search for them. Next, I will suggest to read one article:
Article ResearchGate vs. Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?
Peter - various databases use different metric scoring systems. Some are more generous than others. It's not about being 'organised'. Perhaps the most 'conservative' is ISI WoS. The most generous is often seen as Google Scholar. Scopus tends to come in the middle - and RG tends to sit around the Scopus measure. I have close to 4,000 on Google Scholar - but you will see that it is around half that on RG.
From what I understand both RG and Google Scholar count citations they have in their own database. As RG has less than GS - because they only have the publications that the members list themselves - they will tend to report less citations. GS is in that sense perhaps more correct, but there are other problems with them as they refuse to publish how their alegorithms work. But the site mentioned by Anton Vrdoljak seems to be more accurate on this. :)
Stein,
With ResearchGate, it is not only the publications the members list, but rather publications posted with full-text versions from which ResearchGate can extract citation information.
I think, RG only considers its own members citations only but google scholar counts all citations including self citations too.
Hi Peter,
Yes, my ratio is fairly similar to yours: GS citations = RG citations x 1.7 or so.
One contributing factor may be that GS, unlike RG, seems to count citations in PhD theses that are in the public domain.
I think we have answered this question before. It's partly a function of the journals in researchgate's database. Additionally, I think it's researchgate's presence. If you are on researchgate and the author citing your work is not, then researchgate cannot record the count but Google Scholar will if the journal is indexed there.
Google Scholar seems to be more accurate that Research Gate in terms of statistics. This is my view.
Researchgate depends on what we upload here, If scholars who cited you did not upload their articles on researchgate, your citations will not be counted. The same applies to google scholar, authors who cite you should have published with journals indexed on google scholar.
Google Scholar (GS) uses also other databases when RG uses only content f this portal
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