I was wondering why my paper called "Application of data envelopment analysis on the indicators contributing to learning and teaching performance" (Teaching and Teacher Education) has only 17 citations on RG while it has 32 on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com.tw/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=626143800338139333
Possibly, RG does not count citations from dissertations and written in languages other than English. Not sure.
Thank you
Bernard,
I believe that RG only counts citations found in papers that have full text in RG. Google Scholar searches much more widely.
So, Google Scholar is a better count, but be sure to check your publications in Google Scholar occasionally. They occasionally attribute a paper to someone who is not the author, but has a similar name. That happened to be a few months ago, so I lost a few citations for a while when I deleted the false listing. :-)
Bernard,
I believe that RG only counts citations found in papers that have full text in RG. Google Scholar searches much more widely.
So, Google Scholar is a better count, but be sure to check your publications in Google Scholar occasionally. They occasionally attribute a paper to someone who is not the author, but has a similar name. That happened to be a few months ago, so I lost a few citations for a while when I deleted the false listing. :-)
RG citation count is only based on the papers uploaded on this platform. Hence, if a paper is not uploaded citations in it is not taken account of.
I also see the difference between citations number on RG and Scholar, even for the same full text articles. It is quite common that you have more citation on GS than on RG. I never had an opposite case. I have no idea how do they count.
Thank you all, yes, looks like RG counts only citations for papers uploaded on the platform. I saw that there is also a problem of attribution of papers, sometimes because of similar or identical names or because co-authors upload a publication, but not with exactly the same style, so RG counts it as two different papers.
I am totally agree wuth M. Victor Okomoda , thank you for your question M. Bernard Montoneri
ResearchGate only counts citations found in papers that have full text in in RG database. While citations using standard citation styles are usually extracted accurately on ResearchGate, there are some instances where they cannot be extracted – for example, for full-text PDFs that have been created from scanned hard copies. PDF as a format is not particularly standard, and therefore creating algorithms to extract this information is an ongoing process, with varying levels of success. Please also note that citations that do not have complete metadata (publication date, journal, abstract) may not be included in your citation counts, as this is an important piece of information when it comes to matching citations to publications correctly. Our citation data is regularly updated and we are working hard to improve how we extract and match citations, so if you notice some are missing, they may be added soon.
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