Dear All,
Just to know how references of research papers uploaded on RG platform are actually captured. Some are capture very well, some very few while some published academic books are not captured at all. Just wondering........
RG citation are captured from those paper on RG.
The total citation depends on the database used, for example, RG counts all citations from the papers those on RG. So if you have cited by other paper not added to RG it will not counted. Google scholar shows the highest number of citations as all published papers could be found by google. When you moved to Scopus you will find lower number of citation as it counts only the papers indexed by Scopus only. Same if you go to Thomson Returnees u will get lower citation as it counts from papers indexed by WoS only.
Similar question was asked there
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_add_or_import_my_google_scholar_citations_to_Research_Gate
I think it is a little complicated. Can't really identify how the references are captured in an unequal manner. Hope some experts in this aspect can shed more light on this issue.
Thank you
Olutosin
RG citation are captured from those paper on RG.
The total citation depends on the database used, for example, RG counts all citations from the papers those on RG. So if you have cited by other paper not added to RG it will not counted. Google scholar shows the highest number of citations as all published papers could be found by google. When you moved to Scopus you will find lower number of citation as it counts only the papers indexed by Scopus only. Same if you go to Thomson Returnees u will get lower citation as it counts from papers indexed by WoS only.
Similar question was asked there
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_add_or_import_my_google_scholar_citations_to_Research_Gate
Kindly see the following link to have a clear idea how the RG citations are counted:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_there_is_a_difference_in_total_number_of_citation_between_RG_and_Google_Scholar
Thank you so much dear RG colleagues for your valuable contribution.
Oluwaseun
Some of my papers were captured twice...I had to delete one to give room for the other...In my own opinion the RG capturing is not all that accurate as compared to that of google scholar.
I utterly agree with you. Thank you for your contribution dear Olusegun Abayomi Olalere.
Oluwaseun
I am sure some references may not be peer reviewed and also not retrievable or accessible online.
Thank you
Olutosin
Thank you very much dear Dr. Hadeel Saleh Haj Aliwi for your kind recommending my so simple previous question via this link, really we are all representing one academic family and have to strongly create a mutual cooperation group.
I am up-voting the all above mentioned excellent comments and especially that of our beloved citation expert Dr. Gomaa A. M. Ali where he presented a detailed answer.
Thanks colleagues.
Emad
I think this is due to the accuracy and transfer of citations for each platform
Thank you all for your excellent contributions so far. You are all appreciated.
Oluwaseun
References of some publications are not still captured on RG platform. Like books published that are actually to be purchased online from the publishers webpages.
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