Why does it normally take too long to fetch any new research work to appear in the GS profile when it appears days before with Research Gate and also appears in all search engines, including Google but not with Google Scholar? Not sure Why?
I have different experience with RG & Google Scholar. My list of Google Scholar citations is valid and it has almost 50% of citations more than at Researchgate.
Dear Noor Zaman Jhanjhi , there are many related research questions about this problem. I am glad to share it here if you are interested in, many good contributions are given.
I have checked Google Scholar Profile of Noor Zaman Jhanjhi , link follows.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=J6QVIncAAAAJ
9,477 is number of citations at GS, while 7,444 is number of citations at RG.
So, RG faces the problem of citations.
From my understanding, Google Scholar updates 3 times a week in 2-3 day intervals between each update round. Google Scholar automatically crawls and indexes information from major publishers (e.g., all journals published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, OUP, CUP, MDPI, Frontiers, ACM, IEEE etc.) as well as institutional repositories, pre-print servers and other scientific channels (e.g., also ResearchGate). I assume this is quite a time- and resource-intensive task and it therefore takes several hours for each update round. I guess there is also no real imperative on their end to update more often or even close to real-time. Sometimes if a paper gets published too late for a current or ongoing update round, it can take more than 3 days and it also depends on the publisher. Google Scholar is good/reliable and fast at indexing entries from major publishers and standard formats such as journal articles but might struggle with smaller publishers or non-standard formats (e.g., reports, book chapters).
Links to related research questions follow dear Noor Zaman Jhanjhi
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Citation_numbers_differ_on_Research_gate_and_Google_Scholar_profile
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_unify_total_citation_in_RG_and_Google_Scholar
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Any_explanation_on_why_the_number_of_citations_for_a_published_article_listed_in_ResearchGate_is_less_than_corresponding_number_of_google_citations
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Researchgate_vs_Google_scholar_which_one_is_better_to_spend_a_time_on_it
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_long_does_it_take_for_Google_Scholar_to_track_a_citation
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_there_is_no_coordination_among_RG_Google_Scholar_and_Scopus_for_accepting_articles_with_DOI_number_and_calculating_h-iindex
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Right_now_I_have_a_citation_documented_on_Google_Scholar_for_one_of_my_articlesWhy_it_is_not_documented_on_Research_gate
Dear Ekechi Stella Amadi , do you have Google Scholar account?
I have found this one: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Ekechi+Amadi&btnG=
The number of citations at GS = 13, while the number of citations at RG is 12.
So, would you say something about this facts.
Yes I do! once I upload research work on ResearchGate it picks up my citations faster while Google scholar takes a longer time.
It is not the speed that matters, but the accuracy of the data. RG does not provide reliable and accurate data on the number of citations dear Ekechi Stella Amadi .
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