ResearchGate notified me that I was cited in a recent paper "The Dietary Carbon Footprint of Portuguese Adults: Defining and Assessing Mitigation Scenarios for Greenhouse Gas Emissions". My citation count in my Profile on that day only went up by one citation, whereas I was actually cited four times in that paper. One of the papers cited was by Dyer et al 2014 (me); the other three papers by were to Vergé et al., 2009a,b and 2013. Did the RG system or staff miss my name on the three Vergé et al papers, or is there some reason why my coauthorship on those three papers would not be considered as my citations?
The staff is not involved in this, as citations are identified fully automated by an algorithm. This process is far from being perfect - citations are rather often not identified or wrongly identified. And RG has to have the full text of the citing publication, otherwise the algorithm has no material to work with. See also these related discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_citation_score_for_author_publications_looks_different_on_Scopus_research_gate_google_scholar
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_some_citations_not_visible_on_ResearchGate_and_Google_Scholar
https://www.researchgate.net/post/RG-citations-how-are-they-calculated/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/missing_citation_number/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_some_of_my_citations_not_shown2/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_the_citation_is_not_shown/1
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https://www.researchgate.net/post/citations_in_RG/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_fix_missing_citations/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_add_missing_citation/1
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