The total citation depends on the database used, for example, RG counts all citations from the papers those on RG. So if you have cited by other paper not added to RG it will not counted. Google scholar shows the highest number of citations as all published papers could be found by google. When you moved to Scopus you will find lower number of citation as it counts only the papers indexed by Scopus only. Same if you go to Thomson Returnees u will get lower citation as it counts from papers indexed by WoS only.

You can only get the same number of citations in RG and google scholar in case all of the papers have cited you were registered and added to RG.

Thanks

ResearchGate (RG) takes citations only from papers, which are uploaded in RG. Hence, citations in Google Scholar are unknown for RG. One way to include these citations in RG is to upload the paper with the citation as "supplementary resources" of your paper, then RG will be able to extract the citation. Be careful because RG adds your name as author in the paper that you are adding. So delete your name, save it and hope that the automatic citation extracting machine of RG find the citation.

Very important question

The total citation depends on the database used, for example, RG counts all citations from the papers those on RG. So if you have cited by other paper not added to RG it will not counted. Google scholar shows the highest number of citations as all published papers could be found by google. When you moved to Scopus you will find lower number of citation as it counts only the papers indexed by Scopus only. Same if you go to Thomson Returnees u will get lower citation as it counts from papers indexed by WoS only.

You can only get the same number of citations in RG and google scholar in case all of the papers have cited you were registered and added to RG.

Thanks

No words or comments are found to say after our dear citation expert Dr. Gomaa A. M. Ali detailed comment. thank you so much my brother for your impressive contribution, I utterly agree with your comment(s).

Many other answers are available below:

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

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These links posted by Prof. Dr. Ljubomir Jacić , before two days.

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

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

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

Emad

Perfect answer by Dr.Gomaa.I agree with him.

Thank you so much my respected colleagues Dr. Emad and Dr. Hassan.

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I quite wondering as so many researchers interested and asked same question.

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Dear Mohammad Nashir Uddin

Why some citations are not recorded which are found in google scholar?

I was suffering from the same problem, the reason is simple that(who cited you in an article is now not registered on RG, so his citation does not exist here). If his article arises on RG or when he registers it will be recorded directly. Regards

Thanks Dr Adrian Gambier for your suggestion but I have tried it, it never worked. I added some of these papers as supplementary over 5 months ago but none has been captured by RG.

Dear Dr Adrian Gambier

No one has the right to upload the others' papers.

Supplementary data means data belongs to the same papers but it published in other file as it less important than the main data or the data in the main file exceed the journal limits. So according to this the person who uploads others' papers under his papers as sub data will derictly put himself under big problem.

Simply this means the sub data is his own data and indeed it is not.

In addition, I don't think RG will count citation from sub data as RG will consider it is another part of the same paper.

Regards

ResearchGate has launched its own citation index by extracting citations from documents uploaded to the site and reporting citation counts on article profile pages. Since authors may upload preprints to ResearchGate, it may use these to provide early impact evidence for new papers.

Article ResearchGate vs. Google Scholar: Which finds more early citations?

Hi, I added some papers as references in a project, and it worked at that time. Now... This does not longer work because we are no longer able to upload copyrighted material (also not our own papers). ResearchGate has been accused by Elsevier and other publishers in the German court as a provider of infrastructure for illegal contents. Hence, the future of RG is at present unknown. They has been deleting a large amount of documents in the last time.

Here, do you have the news

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/publishers-take-researchgate-court-alleging-massive-copyright-infringement

Adding missing citations in Research gate

WORKING SOLUTION: (warning! With some complications)

Why: Recently noted that one of my paper had 10 citations in RG however 17 in google scholar citation index. RG use to have manual way to add citations, however this is not available now. This is way around to solve that problem. As researchers citations are one the very important indicator of acceptance of our work in research community.

How:

This is solution to add paper which cited your work but not showing in RG by adding them in that paper's supplementary resources. I have added so far 7 citations and 5 already showing in the RG system of citations count.

Solution: 

1) Double click the name of paper to which you want to add citations missing in GR (which are showing up in google scholar or another platform).

2) One trick to find if additional papers which have cited you in addition to RG, search in google scholar with name of your paper. (if you already have list skip this step). You can find the list by search with title of the paper in google scholar, it will show one result with no. of citations of that paper. Click on the citations button and you will find list of all papers which cited your work.

3) From google scholar on page which shows list of paper which have cited you, click on each paper name, and download it.

4) Drag the drop papers in dragbox 

5) You can add name and full title of the papers you have downloaded and make sure they have cited your work.

6) Done - while you add supplementary material system will be scanning them to add in citation index of RG.

7) By default the paper you have added as supplementary material will be also listed in your publications so you have to "Remove from your profile" from Remove option on that paper. However, it will not reduce your citations of the papers. These are added since by default you are one of the authors of the supplementary material so by this step it will be solved. 

8) For copyright issues, you have to remove these supplementary materials (papers which cited you) if permission is required and I am not sure if this will effect citation no. of a paper (still have to check it).

However there is small problem, that while adding authors names, your name will be added by default. This is bug which RG have to work it but problem looks solved. However you can remove other co-authors names from authors while adding original article authors of paper which cited you.

Please share your experience in comments.

Dear all,

This has happened to me. I had 13 citations in one paper and all have disappeared in RG but can be seen in GS! However, I can see one paper with 4 citations in GR but 6 in GS. I have no idea about the rest of my papers as I have just noted this strange change; I am still making follow-ups. I wish RG could have an automated system on the citations.