Hi, the gold standard for citations are the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index from Thomson Reuters or SCOPUS from Reed Elsevier. They are basically competitors. Although there are some differences in emphasis they try to cover the same market. These are the sort tools used for any bibliographic analysis for research assessment. It returns fewer citations than Google Scholar because it uses fewer journals to source data. Journals are selected according "quality" criteria. Google Scholar selects any citation from any source and therefore "inflates" the citation count. Google Scholar is free though and widely used. Check with your University Library to see if they have access to Citation Indexes or Scopus.

As you have discovered the Scholar can be a bit variable. Have you thought of curating your own citation count by gathering data from more than one source. Use a free citation software like Mendeley to manage the results.

I might also advise taking the time to get a ResearcherID [ Researcherid.com ] and an ORCID [ orcid.org ] identity. Both are free. One of the biggest variables in citation analysis is accurately identifying authors. Setting up either or both of these will make your identify as author more secure, especially in automated citation analysis.

I see that you have an account on Google Scholar, which is a decent service for your problem.

Scopus is such a website. The problem is with the papers published before, say, 1995 and published with other publisher than Elsevier. Another one is Web of Science of Reuters. I "discoverd" the website a month or so ago and find it very professional. Both websites need an institutional access.

Google Scholar is more comprehensive website and easy to access.

Dear Dr. Michael Brückner, Yes. I am using google scholar. but in my case, I found that it has not detected five citations, in which my publications were cited ( all these cited publications are shown in Google Scholar). further it counted one citation which haven't actually cited my publication. That's why I'm searching for an accurate search engine.

I have posted a similar question, but some problem could occur...(https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_clear_that_the_number_of_citations_is_increasing_in_the_following_order_Researcher-ID_Web_of_Science_database_Scopus_and_Google)

Anyway, I often use Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science. The problem is their parameters seems to be relatively different. Another tool ,ORCID, allows integrate Research-ID and Scopus. I think it is a good debate!

I think it depends. I don't have any institutional subscription to Web of Science or Scopus as my institution can't afford. So, Google Scholar is the best option for me.

J.M.J.W. Jayasinghe

It also happened to me too. Anyhow google bot failed to recognize the article that cited you and perhaps due to this reason you deprive from the citation count.

Regards.

Google Scholar is the most comprehensive solution. It reveals much higher citation counts than Web of Science or Scopus, because it's more inclusive and also considers non-peer reviewed papers, working papers, theses etc.

So, it depends what you're after. If you only want more proven and established citations, you should go for Web of Science or Scopus. If you want everything (and detect your citations early on), Google Scholar is the way to go.

However, I'd propose a more encompassing notion of citation. Links, retweets, likes, downloads, bookmarks and mentions can also be considered a sort of (weak) citation. Thus, such altmetrics could complement classical citations. Here is a very easy way to get these "alternative citations" or altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

Dear J.M.JM Jayasinghe

The Google Scholar Citations provides authors a simple way to track citations to your articles . You can check who cites his publications , view graphs of citations over time and evaluate various citation metrics . You can also make your profile public so that it appears in Google Scholar results when people search , eg , your name

You can install (for free) the software program “Publish or Perish” (PoP), based on Google Scholar, to retrieve and analyze citations of your research publications.

Hi, the gold standard for citations are the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index from Thomson Reuters or SCOPUS from Reed Elsevier. They are basically competitors. Although there are some differences in emphasis they try to cover the same market. These are the sort tools used for any bibliographic analysis for research assessment. It returns fewer citations than Google Scholar because it uses fewer journals to source data. Journals are selected according "quality" criteria. Google Scholar selects any citation from any source and therefore "inflates" the citation count. Google Scholar is free though and widely used. Check with your University Library to see if they have access to Citation Indexes or Scopus.

As you have discovered the Scholar can be a bit variable. Have you thought of curating your own citation count by gathering data from more than one source. Use a free citation software like Mendeley to manage the results.

I might also advise taking the time to get a ResearcherID [ Researcherid.com ] and an ORCID [ orcid.org ] identity. Both are free. One of the biggest variables in citation analysis is accurately identifying authors. Setting up either or both of these will make your identify as author more secure, especially in automated citation analysis.

A very strange data is related to "secondary documents" in Scopus. I do not know what does it means. Scopus service said that these do not belong to Scopus database, but what they were found? Many journals in secondary docs belongs at the same time to main docs...

I haven't email for my institution how can I make my profile public on google scholar?

Google scholar but normal google 

Google Scholar I think

now ESCI

This is good tool for citation's tracking.

CiteScore Tracker: Keep current with how a title’s CiteScore is building each month!

While a metric like CiteScore provides a consistent way to track performance annually, CiteScore Tracker also shows how the current year’s CiteScore builds up each month — additional information that may be helpful when making decisions.

How it works: CiteScore Tracker is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but for the current year, rather than previous, complete years. The numerator (citation count) of the current year’s metric builds up every month as additional citations are received, so that the construction is consistent with the construction of the complete year CiteScore. Once the new annual CiteScore value is fixed, then the CiteScore Tracker for the next year begins and is displayed on Scopus.com. For examples, once CiteScore 2016 is fixed the CiteScore Tracker 2017 will also be initiated and available on Scopus...

https://blog.scopus.com/posts/citescore-tracker-keep-current-with-how-a-title-s-citescore-is-building-each-month?utm_campaign=Scopus%20Newsletter%20End%20Users%202017&utm_campaignPK=324179751&utm_term=OP32335&utm_content=384736279&utm_source=71&BID=1106114223&utm_medium=email&SIS_ID=0&dgcid=Newsletters%20%26%20Alerts_email_Scopus%20Newsletter%20End%20Users%202017

What is the best web site to find citations of our research publications?

Agreed with other researchers / scholars' comments that Google Scholar Citation is one of he best websites to find one's research publications - it includes those features mentioned in the question above.

Scopus, google scholar, RG, science citation index, Orcid ID , Scopus ID   are the different citation analysis tools. Scopus has started indexing documents after 1995. In my opinion, Science Citation index will cover all citations prior to 1995 also. They are all updating their databases.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313423128_CiteScore_vs_Impact_Factor_narrated_by_Asst_Prof_Dr_Emad_Kamil_Hussein?_iepl%5BviewId%5D=9xvNmjKiQrSHQc5jdhqpHwHB&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=projectUpdatesLog&_iepl%5BtargetEntityId%5D=PB%3A313423128&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=publicationTitle

Presentation "CiteScore vs Impact Factor", narrated by: Asst. Prof. Dr. E...

Google Scholar Citation is one of the best websites to find accurate information about citations.

Google Scholar

Counting Your Citations!

Researchers often want to know "How many times have my publications been cited?" This is much more easily asked than answered, and you should exercise caution in gathering and using these numbers. You may underreport your citations if you aren't careful. The methods described here use Web of Science. Be sure to ask for help if you need it...

http://202.127.145.151/siocl/Chemistry%20Library/cited.html

Google scholar citation is one of the best websites for user-friendly and easy to access citation.

Probably Google Scholar

Science Direct and Google Scholar

There are many websites to find citations, such as Web of Sicence, Google Scholar, Scopus, Orcid ID, researchgate and so on. Google Scholar is one of the best websites to find citation information.

I find Google Scholar very user friendly, free, comprehensive and POP based on Google Scholar gives very insightful analysis of research paper quality.In my opinion g-index gives a better picture of overall research accomplishments of an academic than h-index because it takes care of the frequency of citation count of a paper rather than unweighted count as in h-index but I noticed that g-index is not so commonly used as it should be.

I think google scholar is the best web based search web site for best citations of your papers.

Google scholar in combination with Research Gate can provide you with an accurate report of citations

If you want to reach your citations quickly, use only google web and researcgate. Furthermore, you can use searching tools, like time limited in google.

Though Google Scholar is widely used site, there are a lot of gaps and there is hardly any framework of correction. It uses citations of any kind on the web. The real site of worthwhile citations may be considered as Scopus. This includes citations in Scopus indexed journals, conferences, and books. The profile can be corrected with the support available from Scopus.

Google scholar. Unfortunately, it can only find readable and posted pdf citations.

Google Scholar includes a "Cited by" count in its display of individual entries. This is calculated from citations appearing in other articles indexed by Google Scholar. Clicking on this link will take you to the list of citing articles. Since it is impossible to determine with any accuracy what publications Google Scholar does or does not index, this is not a reliable figure and will probably differ significantly from totals found in Web of Science...

http://202.127.145.151/siocl/Chemistry%20Library/cited.html

There are three major databases with indexes to find citations of a scientific paper or author.

These indexes are used as tools to assess research activity and to count the number of citations of scientific papers.

The best tools for finding the number of citations of a specific article are:

Web of Science

The Web of Science provides various options for finding citations. Once the search has been completed, information on the citations that an article has received can be found in the "Times Cited" section.

A more comprehensive search can be carried out via the "Cited Reference Search" tab, which can be used to search by cited author or paper. In addition, this option covers citations of papers that are not indexed in the Web of Science.

Scopus

A Scopus search gives a list of results, including the number of citations that papers have received. Author searches give the total number of citations that an author has received for all his/her works in the Scopus database.

Google Scholar

This search engine provides data on citations of authors and their works. It searches journals, books and book chapters. The results show information on the number of citations a paper has received among the documents in its database.

In addition, we recommend a tool devised by the EC3 research group at the University of Granada.

IN-Recs

This tool lists the most cited papers in a specialized field, as well as their authors, the papers and journals in which they were cited, and the papers cited by the authors themselves.

Searches for author citations are performed by selecting a field and clicking on the "Authors" tab. A list of the most cited authors in the field is shown by default, ranked by total number of citations. Authors can be listed according to other criteria, such as alphabetical order, citations per paper, Spanish citations or international citations.

http://crai.ub.edu/en/crai-services/support-researchers/citation-finder

I think google scholar is best cite for citation calculations.

Number of citations of a particular paper many times varies in Google Scholar and Research Gate. What could be reason of this variation?

Dear @Ashok, you may find some reasons for such variations in number of citations under following threads and answers.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_is_it_that_citations_indicated_in_Google_Scholar_is_different_from_citations_indicated_in_ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_unify_total_citation_in_RG_and_Google_Scholar

Google scholar

Thanks @ Ljubomir for the information. It clarifies the variations. Looks like number of citations by Google Scholar are more inclusive. ResearchGate covers more research activities by researchers.

learn a lot

I prefer Google scholar as well.

There are three major databases with indexes to find citations of a scientific paper or author. These indexes are used as tools to assess research activity and to count the number of citations of scientific papers.

The best tools for finding the number of citations of a specific article are:

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar

...

http://crai.ub.edu/en/crai-services/support-researchers/citation-finder

I think Google scholar is the best web site to find citations of our research publications .

Mendeley, Academia Edu, Google Scholar and Researchgate are the websites which can satisfy your need.

Google scholar, reseaerchgate, scopus etc

Google Scholar is the most vast in this sense, I guess. GS also covers publications in languages other than English, but Research Gate is limited in this sense because of lack of such papers in RG. Therefore someone who started his career with english articles has an advantage. And american scientists do not need to learn a foreign language.

If you have thoughts on the quality of the publication, please share your opinion and experience here:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_mean_by_the_quality_of_a_scientific_paper2

There are many platforms where we can find citations of our research publications such as Google Scholar, Researchgate, Academia, and Scopus. However, in my opinion, Google Scholar and ResearchGate are the best.

In addition to Scopus and Google Scholar mentioned above, I also recommend using a software called "publish or perish" (ironic name), which also helps find such data points. Here is a link to download it (free): https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish

I have discovered Dimensions. It considers citations in book chapters. Maybe is a differential.

In my limited experience, Google Scholar is the most reliable

Sincerely yours,

Xuan Nam Do

This is the link for Dimensions, mentioned by Giuseppe Pintaude in his contribution.

https://www.dimensions.ai/