Google Scholar link returning incorrect result set

eg this article

http://plosmedicine-demo.plos.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124

has no citations on GS when you click the link but I think that's because it is searching with the wrong search string ie it searches with

http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124.

if you search with just the doi

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 you get 353 citations

Andy thinks this is also causing a problem on the searching of google blogs

Not sure if it's been already reported or considered, but I'm not convinced that the Google Scholar functionality is working as well as it could.

For example, for http://plosgenetics-demo.plos.org/article/related/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0030050 [^{] (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.plos.org%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0030050 [}] ), the first result (based on DOI in the search term?) is a Genetics Soc America article.

However, if you pull in author and title within the Scholar search term, like Bio and Medicine, you seem to get the correct article at the top more often: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040125 [^{] (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:M+author:Nomura+Polymorphisms,+Mutations,+and+Amplification+of+the+EGFR+Gene+in+Non-Small+Cell+Lung+Cancers [}] )

A similar search mechanism (author + title, not doi) applied to the first article above only pulls up the relevant article (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:M+author:Johnson-Schlitz+Multiple-Pathway+Analysis+of+Double-Strand+Break+Repair+Mutations+in+Drosophila [^{] )}

Is this something to consider changing (to bring up what appear to be more accurate results)?

We might switch to title/author:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Modulation+of+the+%CE%B2-Catenin+Signaling+Pathway+by+the+Dishevelled-Associated+Protein+Hipk1%22+author%3A%22Sarah+H.+Louie%22&btnG=Search

BUT we would have no direct link to citations or related articles at this point. That is, the user would have to go to scholar by the above link and then click on citations or related. But this won't fix the issue with newly published articles.

The root of the issue here is the Google search index is out of date. To my knowledge there is no way to force google to crawl our sites more frequently, we just have to wait it out.