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University, Pune. Since 2018, she is a member of Empower Committee of UGC-CARE. Her areas of
research are Bibliometrics, Publication ethics, Institutional repositories, and digital libraries.

Sanjay A. Pai is a consultant pathologist at Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Bangalore. His prior
appointments have been at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore and Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. His
editorial associations are with Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, The National Medical Journal of India,
Current Science, and Indian Journal of Cancer.

Kiran Pandya holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sussex (UK). He has thirty-seven years
of teaching and research experience at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Prof. Pandya
has worked on national and international research projects. He has co-authored books on quantitative
analysis using SPSS and R.

Bhushan Patwardhan is National Research Professor-Ayush and Distinguished Professor at SP
Pune University. Former Vice Chairman, UGC and Chairman ICSSR. Fellow, National Academy of
Sciences and National Academy of Medical Sciences. Founder Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Ayurveda
and Integrative Medicine published by Elsevier. Recipient of several orations, awards, research articles,
Patents and 9800+ citations.

Padma Prakash is a sociologist, academic editor, and journalist. Her primary research interests are in
sociology of medicine and health care, science, sports and gender studies, and ethics. She is the editor
of eSocialSciences (www.esocialsciences.org), director, IRIS Knowledge Foundation and was associate
editor of Economic and Political Weekly for nearly 20 years.
Archana Thakur has a Ph.D. in Microalgal Biotechnology with post-doc experience in Molecular
Biology and Biotechnology from USDA, USA. She has chaired more than hundred national/
international conferences/seminars and has 30 national/international publications to her credit. She
is Joint Secretary in UGC, Coordinator of UGC-CARE, and also the bureau head of Deemed-to-be
University, CPP-I, Anti Ragging Cell, Women Studies, Gender Sensitization & HRDC.
Uma Vaidya is member of UGC, has worked as Vice-Chancellor, Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit
University, Ramtek and earlier as R.G. Bhandarkar Professor of Sanskrit & Head, GTCCL, University
of Mumbai. She is proficient in Sanskrit, Pali, Marathi, Hindi, and English. Dr. Vaidya has published 7
books, and over 150 research articles.
Parimal H. Vyas is the Vice-Chancellor (2016-2022, 2nd Term) of The Maharaja Sayajirao University
of Baroda, Vadodara. Earlier, he served here as Acting Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor (2014
-2016). He is Dual Professor of Faculty of Management Studies, and Commerce, and has 37 years’
experience in teaching, research, and academic administration.
M.R. Yadav is Director (R & D), Parul University, Vadodara. He is ex-Professor, former-Head and
Founder Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. He is
a prolific researcher having about 200 publications, 22 Indian Patent Applications, four books and six
book chapters to his credit.

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