The code you posted is not complete and has syntactic errors, making it difficult to be sure what your problem might have been.

In the following code, I have fixed a few obvious errors to make it compile and run. Otherwise I replaced 'Next' with 'Avanti' as, on the pages I got back (Google may return different content to you) the button at the bottom of the page, to proceed to the next page of results, is labeled Avanti. Perhaps this working example will help you get your code working as you wish.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper::Concise;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

my $title = "Raumchemie der festen Stoffe";

$mech->get("http://scholar.google.it/scholar?q=" . $title );

unless($mech->success()) {
    die $mech->status();
}

my $response = $mech->response();

my $content = $response->decoded_content();

print Dumper($content);

my $link_result = $mech->follow_link( url_regex => qr/cites/i, n => 1 
+);

unless($link_result) {
    die "link not found";
}

my $result  = $mech->content;
my $indi    = $mech->uri();
#my $rest     = $out->scrape( $result, $indi );

for my $i (2..5) {
    print "page : ".$i."\n";
    $mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/Avanti$/) or
        die("finished on page : ".$i."\n");
    my $result  = $mech->content;
    my $indi    = $mech->uri();
    print $indi->as_string() . "\n";
    sleep(5);
}

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In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize follow_link not working by ig
in thread WWW::Mechanize follow_link not working by sbasbasba

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