Google scholar citation count, There's a researcher whose work I'm studying, and I was curious and looked him up; Google Scholar says that he has 16,000 ish citations.  But when I scroll through his publications on Google Scholar, some of his top papers have a couple hundred citations only.  That can't possibly add up to 16,000.  So, how is that total number actually derived?
Google Scholar sometimes counts different papers with similar names into the same publication (marked with an asterisk*) -- these usually add up the citations from multiple papers, which might or might not even belong to the same author. Some scholars also just rack up a lot of citations from spreading themselves out with quantity. It's just as possible that he's published a lot of papers with hundreds of citations.