Many times citations of our articles are missing in google scholar and Research Gate. Is there any way, we can add them. This will improve or google scholar profile and RD score.
Adding missing citations in Research gate
WORKING SOLUTION: (warning! With some complications)
Why: Recently noted that one of my paper had 10 citations in RG however 17 in google scholar citation index. RG use to have manual way to add citations, however this is not available now. This is way around to solve that problem. As researchers citations are one the very important indicator of acceptance of our work in research community.
How:
This is solution to add paper which cited your work but not showing in RG by adding them in that paper's supplementary resources. I have added so far 7 citations and 5 already showing in the RG system of citations count.
Solution:
1) Double click the name of paper to which you want to add citations missing in GR (which are showing up in google scholar or another platform).
2) One trick to find if additional papers which have cited you in addition to RG, search in google scholar with name of your paper. (if you already have list skip this step). You can find the list by search with title of the paper in google scholar, it will show one result with no. of citations of that paper. Click on the citations button and you will find list of all papers which cited your work.
3) From google scholar on page which shows list of paper which have cited you, click on each paper name, and download it.
4) Drag the drop papers in dragbox
5) You can add name and full title of the papers you have downloaded and make sure they have cited your work.
6) Done - while you add supplementary material system will be scanning them to add in citation index of RG.
7) By default the paper you have added as supplementary material will be also listed in your publications so you have to "Remove from your profile" from Remove option on that paper. However, it will not reduce your citations of the papers. These are added since by default you are one of the authors of the supplementary material so by this step it will be solved.
8) For copyright issues, you have to remove these supplementary materials (papers which cited you) if permission is required and I am not sure if this will effect citation no. of a paper (still have to check it).
However there is small problem, that while adding authors names, your name will be added by default. This is bug which RG have to work it but problem looks solved. However you can remove other co-authors names from authors while adding original article authors of paper which cited you.
Please share your experience in comments.
For google scholar there is no such option since google scholar harvests scientific articles by its own method. Usually it gets only a small subset of articles being published at RG and others scientific collaboration platforms so the citations is also a small subset. But google scholar claims that this subset is more realiable.
Yes, I do agree Google scholar is more reliable than RG in this regard
Thanks
In fact, indicators of both platform can be manipulated quite easy.
See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2413
Both platforms rely on the honesty of scientists. But this is a little bit out of this topic.
Upload your publications in google scholar and RG. Citations in respect of your articles will be monitored/indicated by the search engine (google scholar) which works for information on the World Wide Web.
But it may be mentioned that google scholar citation is more exhaustive than RG.
Best wishes
I can find many citations when i search articles on google scholar but they are not in my citation count.....
I also experience this in the case of RG. A lot of clutter results from different styles of citations, which does not make it easier for parsers to automatically assign them to source articles. When DOI becomes widespread these problems will disappear - references including DOIs will be explicit.
Please see similar problems and discussions
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_some_citations_are_not_recorded_which_are_found_in_google_scholar
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Would_you_please_inform_me_about_the_process_of_citation
Dr. Monica and Ms. Elangbam - The google scholar searches citations from the world wide web, whereas RG searches the same from the uploaded publications (on RG). The papers, cited your article, if not uploaded (on RG), are not considered for RG citation count. This causes less count of RG citation than the google scholar.
Probably, the concerned authors of the papers (who cited your article) are not members of RG or not yet uploaded the papers.
Regards
Dear Dr Asit Sir, yes I agree. Also, I would like to add that even if the authors who cite our paper upload the paper along with doi (but not full paper), it may not also come under our citation. This may probably arisen from referencing way of the particluar journal (that is it does not provide its references when full paper is not uploaded in RG and hence no citation). However, under same condition google scholar do provide citation. So, I think google scholar as better one regarding this.
Wish you all a very Happy New Year 2018! with more citations : )
Best regards
Chitra
Dear Chitra,
Yes, it may happen.
New Year (2018) Greetings to all !
This usually happens when the arthor did not reference your document well. However, you must also be aware that the manner in which Google index citations is different from RG. Hence, I will sometimes see more of your citations in Google than in RG.
There are many citations to my research articles, which are not reflected in my google scholar profile. ( Deepak Kukkar).
You upload your articles on google scholar and then see.
Remove the multiplied answers (may have appeared due to the technical problem). Regards
only papers, cited your article, which uploaded on researchgate will be counted for researchgate's citation count.
This explain less count of researchgate citation than the google scholar.
Adding missing citations in Research gate
WORKING SOLUTION: (warning! With some complications)
Why: Recently noted that one of my paper had 10 citations in RG however 17 in google scholar citation index. RG use to have manual way to add citations, however this is not available now. This is way around to solve that problem. As researchers citations are one the very important indicator of acceptance of our work in research community.
How:
This is solution to add paper which cited your work but not showing in RG by adding them in that paper's supplementary resources. I have added so far 7 citations and 5 already showing in the RG system of citations count.
Solution:
1) Double click the name of paper to which you want to add citations missing in GR (which are showing up in google scholar or another platform).
2) One trick to find if additional papers which have cited you in addition to RG, search in google scholar with name of your paper. (if you already have list skip this step). You can find the list by search with title of the paper in google scholar, it will show one result with no. of citations of that paper. Click on the citations button and you will find list of all papers which cited your work.
3) From google scholar on page which shows list of paper which have cited you, click on each paper name, and download it.
4) Drag the drop papers in dragbox
5) You can add name and full title of the papers you have downloaded and make sure they have cited your work.
6) Done - while you add supplementary material system will be scanning them to add in citation index of RG.
7) By default the paper you have added as supplementary material will be also listed in your publications so you have to "Remove from your profile" from Remove option on that paper. However, it will not reduce your citations of the papers. These are added since by default you are one of the authors of the supplementary material so by this step it will be solved.
8) For copyright issues, you have to remove these supplementary materials (papers which cited you) if permission is required and I am not sure if this will effect citation no. of a paper (still have to check it).
However there is small problem, that while adding authors names, your name will be added by default. This is bug which RG have to work it but problem looks solved. However you can remove other co-authors names from authors while adding original article authors of paper which cited you.
Please share your experience in comments.
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