RG currently suggests that my published scholarly works currently have 147 citation references in a wide range of Journal articles and conference proceedings publications. By contrast, in a reasonably thorough literature search I have found and confirmed 280 clear accademic references to my publications by full text download.
My method is simple: Over time and in various searches I have just entered my name and initials as “bracketed” key word combinations on both Google Scholar and Google. Being “David P Oulton”. I clearly have an advantage, but additional tag lines such as your University affiliation may work well. Typically, I find that the key “oulton dp” generates about 100 hits, of which 60 plus will find me personally and many will be citation records. Interestingly, the main Google channel often does better than Google Scholar. Do not to exclude foreign language publications, I turned up by reference in publications printed in at least sixteen different foreign languages
The missing citations are not in RG database. That is why the difference in the number of citations.
The authors of these articles are not join RG.
The journals that published these articles are not in RG database.
am in the same situation. Researchgate has captured only 70. Google scholar 103
Thank you all for your input. It is no small matter to assemble a validated and comprehensive citation record. I am currently compiling a citation index for my published works by a process which firstly involves as many search engines as possible (such as Citeseer Scopus and Google scholar) and has un-contrained access to the wworld Wide eb. Further, it has been compiled cumulatively from many searches for each published title; and finally each entry has been validated as far as possible by means of full text download of the citing publication. Such searches have revealed validated citations n 19 different languages including Slovenian Albanian Finnish and Korean, and in many cases the cumulative citation total for a given paper is often close to double that revealed by any individual search engine.
There is no global repository of science. Every database will miss locally important publications that are outside the geographic area of their target audience. Likewise there will be considerable overlap between databases because all databases will carry the internationally recognized journals.
Virtually all databases make it possible to update missing published works and citations.
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