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Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and grew to be one of the leading blogs in the world. With 6.4 million readers per month, you'd think Gigaom was a success story that would go down in history, but things change quickly in the world of online publishing.
Scholarly publishers already know that digital publishing and social media have changed scholarly research workflows and affected the impact of research. Scholarly presses also recognize that technology has caused a sea change in the scholarly publishing industry.
Advances in scholarly communications have significantly changed the research workflow, particularly in the past decade with the huge volume of technology tools that have launched to aid the process.
The University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory ranks 2,000 colleges and universities around the world based on quantity and quality of its scholarly publications.
In an analysis of online mentions of over 2.5 million medical and health sciences-related scholarly documents, Altmetric found that the share of scholarly papers that are mentioned through social media, online news media, social bookmarking, and more has risen from one in 20 in 2009 to nearly one in four in 2014.
