Researchers cannot trust Google Scholar's citation data and search results accuracy

Academics and researchers rely on Google Scholar for literature discovery and citation tracking, but the platform has become increasingly unreliable with inaccurate results, missing papers, and corrupted metadata. This directly impacts research quality, publication decisions, and academic credibility, yet Google provides no transparency into their indexing algorithms or quality control processes. Researchers are forced to manually verify results across multiple databases, wasting hours on validation work that should be automated.