Mahmoud Sherif Zakaria is an associate professor of the Library and Information Science Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and of department of Information & Learning Resources, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include Webometrics, scholarly communication, research data management, data science, data visualization and cloud computing. His research has been published in journals including The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Science and Technology Libraries, IFLA Journal, Arab Journal of Library and Information Science, Cybrarians Journal, New Trends in Libraries and Information, and Research in Library and Information Science. He was awarded the doctoral degree in “Webometrics” from Ain Shams University, Egypt.