About the Authors

Mike Thelwall

m.thelwall@wlv.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Stefanie Haustein

Affiliation École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada and Science-Metrix Inc., Montréal, Québec, Canada

Vincent Larivière

Affiliation École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada and Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Cassidy R. Sugimoto

Affiliation School of Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT VL CRS. Performed the experiments: MT. Analyzed the data: MT. Wrote the paper: MT SH VL CRS.