My citations are three times your reporting of them with over 6,500 on Google Scholar Citations and my h-factor is 40..why this disparity?
Google Scholar searches a wider data base of citing publications than RG, eg books, tech reports, theses ,other grey literature.. I notice a disparity too but not as great as yours.
Dear James J. McKenna Besides the reason mentioned by James Leigh I think even more importantly only half of your publications are present on your profile here on RG. Take for example:
Article Infant Sleep Architecture During Bedsharing and Possible Imp...
Unfortunately RG is not doing a perfect job (especially the older papers) in adding papers to your profile (certainly not for publishers who do not provide the proper meta-data or are simply not collaborating with RG).
Add the missing publications and the different will be way less dramatic.
Best regards.
Thank you both for our time, I appreciate the comments. I have subsequently realized that I'd rather spend by time dong the research and publishing it rather than checking to see how many I have and what my H-factor may be. I'm now embarrassed for ever having asked the question and realize how easy it is to get sucked into an approach reflected here the suggestion here implicitly at play that the quality and importance of one's research can only be inferred by the quantity produced. How silly, afterall! My bad. JM
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