Meanwhile, because of wider access to scholars' publications online/internet, Google scholar has more citation count possibilities than that of researchgate that captures only publications uploaded on it.

This discussion has been over flogged in several related platform. Basically, to my best knowledge, researchgate captures only citation counts on only publications that are uploaded on it and other publications outside the researchgate platform are not captured while considering Google scholar citation counts are capture mainly on all documents/publications that are rightly available online/internet. Those that are not available are not capture on Google scholar.

Meanwhile, because of wider access to scholars' publications online/internet, Google scholar has more citation count possibilities than that of researchgate that captures only publications uploaded on it.

Dear Dr. Yehya A. Salih Sir,

Please have a look at these useful RG links.

Article ResearchGate vs. Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?

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

Regards

This is due to the difference in the database and the way in which the citation index works, especially when distinguishing between self and non-self citation records.

I agree with Prof. Isam

RG citations are limited to RG unless there is a collaborate , I guess Prof Salih.

While google will search has a impressive analytical engine too , RG does that too unless it finds at the cost of time (may be ) .

ResearchGate has launched its own citation index by extracting citations from documents uploaded to the site and reporting citation counts on article profile pages. Since authors may upload preprints to ResearchGate, it may use these to provide early impact evidence for new papers. ResearchGate found less citations than did Google Scholar but more than both Web of Science and Scopus. This held true for the dataset overall and for the six largest journals in it. ResearchGate correlated most strongly with Google Scholar citations, suggesting that ResearchGate is not predominantly tapping a fundamentally different source of data than Google Scholar. Nevertheless, preprint sharing in ResearchGate is substantial enough for authors to take seriously.

In my opinion citations in RG occur only if the citing researcher is registered here, and its research article( citing my research article) is published here in RG. In Google Scholar the range is wider as GOOGLE as a Search Engine is connected directly to the Journals Sites, so the real up to date citations are recorded in Google Scholar.

RG citations also captures google scholar citations in my opinion. Nevertheless there may be difference in counts that are minimum in few cases when compared to goggle and RG citations

i do agree with the answer given y Nabeel Hameed Al-saati

Both RG and Google scholar have different database in regard of citations.

Google scholar offers an extensive database compared to RG. That is why h- index of the two varies slightly.

Yes, agree with Dr Abhimanyu Nain

Following

RG is entirely different from Google Scholar; hence the metrics\ algorithm for calculating citation index will be different.

Good point, following

Thank you all for making me understand the difference between the two citations.

Citation is one type of indexing and google scholar and RG is online tool to index and calculate the citations, H index, i10, etc. Besides the above, RG also provides the paper uploading facility like repositories.

Thank you dear Dr. Anand Raghavendra Rao for explanation.

Good luck.

Dear Dr. Nabeel Hameed Al-Saati.

I am very thankful for your answer.

With regards.

RG and Google scholar have different database in citations.

Yes, dear Dr. Mahesh Kumar , but how ?

Best wishes.

Dear Dr. Anand.

Thanks alot for a quick response, Yes its right that RG and Google scholar have different database in citations , but I dont know these differences.

With my highly appreciation.

Hi dear Dr. Khushpreet Singh Brar.

I appreciate your good answer.

With greetings.

Dear, Dr. Harry

Good evening.. thank you for kind answer.

Regards.

Thanks alot dears :

Prof. Dhia and Dr. Millie Horsfall.

Good luck and nice times.

Hello Abhimanyu Nain..

Your answer is appreciated, thank you very much Sir.

With best regards.

Dear Dr. Isam Issa Omran,,,

Its suitable answer.

Regards

It may be dear Aparna Sathya Murthy.

Thank you so much for response.

With my highly appreciation.

Dear Dr. Ali Kadhum M. Al-Qurabat,,

I see that your answer is very good.

Thank you again.

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I am very thankful dear Dr. Arvind Singh for the useful RG link.

Please accept my highly appreciation.

Hi, Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin,,,, Yes Sir, I agree with you that Google Scholar has citation count possibilities more than that of researchgate that captures only publications uploaded on it.

Thank you again Sir.

Dr. Y. A. Salih

Thank you so much dear Dr. Anand for kind recommendations. I am very glad that you read my comments and recommending them.

With highly appreciation.

Dr. Y. A. Salih

Agree with the above inputs the citations captured are different, goggle scholars citations have a wide band, where as research gate also covers to all not restricted to the registered users.

The advantage in RG is that if any researcher fallows a publication and intends to cite the same will be captured even if it is an working paper

Yes, dear Dr. Anand...

I agree with you. Thanks alot for explanation.

With regards

Valuable contributions by respected colleagues

The citations in RG occur only if the citing researcher is registered in RG while in the Google Scholar the range is wider as Google as a search engine is connected directly to the Journals Sites.

Dear, Dr. Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin,,

I am very thankful Sir, for kind comment.

Thank you so much Dr. Saad Najeeb for valuable answering.

Best regards.

Many thanks Dr. Yehya A. Salih

Agree with all the above inputs the citations captured are different, goggle scholars citations have a wide band, where as research gate also covers to all not restricted to the registered users.

The advantage in RG is that if any researcher fallows a publication and intends to cite the same will be captured even if it is an working paper

With my understanding RG captures more citations

Yes, dear Dr. Anand, I agree with you too. Thanks a lot for your kind response.

Best regards.

I agrre with your answer Dr.Anand Raghavendra. ...Good luck.