Hi Amr - it's because the different companies use different metric-based systems to access their data. I have around double the citations in Google Scholar than in RG. RG's system tends to focus on journal article citation - as does Google Scholar, but Google Scholar reports wider documentation for citation as well i.e. student theses, book chapters, organisational reports etc.

Dear Dr Amr Darwish

It depends on the different algorithms they use. Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. Mainly, as someone reported in a previous post on Researchgate questions: "If some of the citations to your article are not included, chances are that the citing articles are not accessible to Google search robots or are formatted in ways that make it difficult for their indexing algorithms to identify their bibliographic data or references. To fix this, you'll need to identify the specific citing articles with indexing problems and work with the publisher of these articles to make the necessary changes (see our inclusion guidelines for details). For most publishers, it usually takes 6-9 months for the changes to be reflected in Google Scholar; for very large publishers, it can take much longer."

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anybody_know_how_we_can_add_the_missing_citations_to_our_profile_in_Google_Scholar

Also, There are

Three steps to add the missing self-citation into your ResearchGate (RG)

When you have a missing self-citation problem because there are no references with your publication or there is a less number of references in that publication (e.g., your references list in your article is 40 but appear 20 in RG, you need to do the following steps to solve this problem:

1) Go to your article that you want to add the references to it and remove the full-text from publication page (if you do not upload the article, skip this point)

2) Download the article (publisher’s version/PDF) from the publisher’s website.

3) Go to Add new researchàPublished research and upload your article (publisher’s version) as private file* (if your article is not open access) and as a public file (if your article is open access), you can check the copyright for any journal using this link

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php

When you done these steps, refresh the page or log out/in to see the changes (you will see that the number of references increases directly and your self-citation will appear in next 24-hour update).

You need to repeat these steps for each article separately.

I hope it helps you in finding an answer to your question.

Also,

Upload your publications in google scholar and RG. Citations in respect of your articles will be monitored/indicated by the search engine (google scholar) which works for information on the World Wide Web.

But it may be mentioned that google scholar citation is more exhaustive than RG.

Best Regards@

Dear Amr Darwish ,

RG only displays those citations if that paper is uploaded in RG. On the other hand google citations tries to explore all the online and open access citations. That's why, Google citations is always higher than RG citations.

Regards

Hom

Agreed with Pritam Kumar Panda and Hom Nath Chalise

For that matter, those articles should be uploaded on RG.

Dear Dr Amr Darwish

It depends on the different algorithms they use. Google Scholar finds new citations to your work on the web. Mainly, as someone reported in a previous post on Researchgate questions: "If some of the citations to your article are not included, chances are that the citing articles are not accessible to Google search robots or are formatted in ways that make it difficult for their indexing algorithms to identify their bibliographic data or references. To fix this, you'll need to identify the specific citing articles with indexing problems and work with the publisher of these articles to make the necessary changes (see our inclusion guidelines for details). For most publishers, it usually takes 6-9 months for the changes to be reflected in Google Scholar; for very large publishers, it can take much longer."

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anybody_know_how_we_can_add_the_missing_citations_to_our_profile_in_Google_Scholar

Also, There are

Three steps to add the missing self-citation into your ResearchGate (RG)

When you have a missing self-citation problem because there are no references with your publication or there is a less number of references in that publication (e.g., your references list in your article is 40 but appear 20 in RG, you need to do the following steps to solve this problem:

1) Go to your article that you want to add the references to it and remove the full-text from publication page (if you do not upload the article, skip this point)

2) Download the article (publisher’s version/PDF) from the publisher’s website.

3) Go to Add new researchàPublished research and upload your article (publisher’s version) as private file* (if your article is not open access) and as a public file (if your article is open access), you can check the copyright for any journal using this link

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php

When you done these steps, refresh the page or log out/in to see the changes (you will see that the number of references increases directly and your self-citation will appear in next 24-hour update).

You need to repeat these steps for each article separately.

I hope it helps you in finding an answer to your question.

Also,

Upload your publications in google scholar and RG. Citations in respect of your articles will be monitored/indicated by the search engine (google scholar) which works for information on the World Wide Web.

But it may be mentioned that google scholar citation is more exhaustive than RG.

Best Regard

Very good question and followed by useful discussions. I have also noticed duplication of Citations both in ResearchGate and GoogleScholar. Sometimes RG says "You have 2 citations" but I can only see one article uploaded twice by two different co-authors.

Amina Jama Mahmud

You are right I have around double the citations in Google Scholar than in RG. RG's system tends to focus on journal article citation - as does Google Scholar, but Google Scholar reports wider documentation for citation as well

Hello, i think because its a different company . It depends on different algorithms they use. research gate citations increase only when the article paper where uploaded in RG. On the other hand in the google scholar just by opening or accessing the paper online the citation will increase that’s a result of why the google citation is doublers than RG.

I have same problem. Hopefully, Researchgate could sort out this issue for us.

Generally it take 2 to 3 months for reflecting citation in RG, though in Google scholar is much better for citation tracking

Google schooler show the best results for the citation

I also discover this. I think RG can come up with citation meter.

I have a same problem also

Probably, ReaserchGate (RG) counts citations from publications that are uploaded only in RG network, on the other hand, google scholar counts citations from publications uploaded in any network including RG.

I hVe a same problem and RG score somtime get decrased.

me also

may be RG other company

google scholar also the depended on what you upload on website

The same problem with me also RG score and google score difference of 75 scores.

In evaluating the activity required for promotion in Egyptian universities, the research citation mentioned in Scopus, which is less than the Google Scholar, Research Gate, is relied on because it only counts journals indexed in Scopus.

I have same issue. please guide me also

The algorithms used by GS and RG are different, as so with WOS and Scopus

it depends on whether the authors who cited you have account on RG or not , they probably not , and they also need to update the publications on RG from time to time , if thy published new ones they should update and add it manually on RG

What can I do if it appears on google but not on RG, the author who cited is on RG and they have uploaded the full paper but it is still not counted by RG?

Why are some of my citations not shown?

We regularly import citation data from different sources and do our best to ensure accuracy. However, while citations using standard citation styles are usually extracted accurately on ResearchGate, there are some cases where this can be difficult.

Here’s what you can do to help your citations appear on ResearchGate:

• Make sure the citing paper is on ResearchGate
• Check to see if the paper has complete and accurate metadata (e.g., publication date, journal, abstract)
• Make sure any full-text PDFs were not created by scanning a hard copy, as we can’t extract citations from scanned copies

If you recently added a publication to ResearchGate and notice that citations are missing, please be patient as it can take some time to extract all its citations. Please also note that we aren’t able to manually add your citations from other sources, e.g., Google Scholar.

We understand that it's frustrating when citations aren't displayed, so we're always working on new ways to improve how we extract and match citations.

I have the same problem with a difference of around 25 :(

I think it depends on algorithms used by RG

I have the same problem

Same boat!

The article that cited your study may not be uploaded to Researchgate. That is, both the cited and citing articles should be uploaded to Researchgate.

I have also a same problem showing no citation updates although paper was cited in other article.

I have the same problem

I have same problem

Do have to load the citing articles myself? How?

Because the citations are on the basis of the articles included in the researchgate, not out of it.

The same to me.

I got the same issue! For a solution, I couldn't agree more with Prof. Selami Aydin.

May be due to the absence of article on RG which cited your work.

The article who cited my paper already available in research gate, but no citation updates in my article.