Product Search Citations: 4 Gates—Schema Is Not a Guarantee

Counts differ because each database indexes a different set of publications. We treat OpenAlex as the canonical count; Google Scholar is not shown (no API, and crawling it violates its ToS).

See how four gates shape product search citations, why schema and JSON-LD are not citation guarantees, and how freshness needs separate controls. Independent technical note mirroring the canonical version: https://nolemon.io/blog/product-search-citations-4-gatesschema-is-not-a-guarantee.php