AMEC-1954 organized imports (removed unnecessary one and replaced the wildcard import with explicit class names)
AMEC-2023 changed the conditional statement for identifying the supporting info files (SIs) from figures and tables
AMEC-1657 added an else statement to return from the function when the figshare have no metrics to display. This prevents reading the null values.
AMEC-1954 removed the extra indent on return line
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/dev-AMEC-1954' into release/2.8.9rc
Merge branch 'dev-AMEC-2023' into release/2.8.9rc
adding 2.8.8 and 2.8.9's release notes