There is a considerable discrepancies between the number of citations reported by Researchgate it is usually lower than googlescholar. Scopus on the other hand reports much lower citations compared to Researchgate. I know that scopus is more restricted in its approach. However, once an article is cited in literature, irrespective of the quality of journal its citation exists? are there any data qualifiers to assume which citation index is correct, since H-index across google scholar, researchgate and scopus varies.
As you can find in an abundance of discussions here on RG, each of these platforms uses a different set of journals and has different citation detection algorithm which works well on some documents and not so well on others. That results in different citation counts and h-indices which is why such a count without the source database is meaningless.
See Wolfgang Dick's link list in this discussion:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_citation_score_for_author_publications_looks_different_on_Scopus_research_gate_google_scholar
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