About the Authors

Hamid R. Jamali

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

h.jamali@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

David Nicholas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIBER Research, Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom

David Sims

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Anthony Watkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIBER Research, Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Eti Herman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIBER Research, Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Área de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de León, León, Spain

Marzena Świgoń

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wydział Humanistyczny, Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski, Olsztyn, Poland

Abdullah Abrizah

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Library &Information Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jie Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Carol Tenopir

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Suzie Allard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.