The use of academia.edu, researchgate, google scholar, scopus, and publons among the polish researchers of social communication and media sciences

Aim – to define the degree of activity, bibliometrics, and altmetrics of Polish researchers in social communication and media sciences on scientific websites: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Publons, and Scopus, and purposes of their use. Methodology – quantitative study on the research sample of 570 academics. The collected data were then subjected to statistical ana- lysis. Findings and conclusions – The intensity and manner of using the websites depend on the period of their operation, differences in functionalities, but also on the publishing and scientific activity (sharing bibliographies and texts on the websites, communication and information exchange, cooperation) of researchers.