Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar is Professor in Accounting at the University of Granada. He is included into the list of 100,000 top-scientists in the world -years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024- (see https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8) and Top 2% Scholar in the world due to the impact of his research career. He has been recognised as a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Government Society. He has authored more than 75 papers in 35 different JCR journals, among them we can highlight Government Information Quarterly, Public Administration and Development, Online Information Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Information Technology for Development, Internet Research, Administration & Society, among others. He has been also the author of several book chapters published in Routledge, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, Nova Publishers and IGI Global, and is author of full-length books published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Spain. He is also editor of books in Springer and Routledge, member of the Editorial Board of Government Information Quarterly and Associate Editor in other leading international journals. Department of Accounting and Finance (Faculty of Business Studies), University of Granada, C/ Campus Universitario de Cartuja S/N. Post Code (Box): 18071Granada (Spain); Tlf +34 958242881; e-mail: manuelp@ugr.es