Interestingly many notable Indian scientists feature on the list. A majority are from IITs, IISc, and other top institutes and come from fields like physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, plant biology, energy etc.

All of these scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields in the report which was created under the lead of Dr John Ioannidis. The report has been published in PLOS Biology.

A few of the most prominent names among Indian scientists features in the study are:

• Dr RA Mashelkar — who pioneered Gandhian engineering.

• Ahmed Kamal — Jamia Hamdard Pro-Chancellor.

• Ambuj Sagar, DK Sharma, KA Subramaniam IIT Delhi.

• Prof Rakesh Aggarwal, currently on deputation as director of JIPMER Puducherry.

• Dr Vidya Arankalle — former director grade scientists at National Institute of Virology.

• Dr Bhushan Patwardhan — Vice-chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC).

• Dr T Padmanabhan — theoretical physicist.

• Dr Naresh Dadich — from IUCAA.

• Dr Sundeep Salvi and Dr C S Yajnik — top names in their respective fields of
respiratory medicine and diabetes.

• AK Srivastava, Deepak Kumar, Vishnu J Ram from Lucknow University

• Ashok Pandey, Kunwar P Singh, Rikabh C Srimal, Y Shukla, BS Khangarot, Poonam Kakkar,
Biswaroop Das from IIT Roorkee.

• Prof. KS Rangappa — former Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore (UoM) and past General
President of Indian Science Congress Association.

• Prof. Ranjan Bose — Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
(IIIT-Delhi), national coordinator for the Mission Project on Virtual Labs, and recipient
of Vikram Sarabhai Research Award.

• Prof. GPS Raghava — bio-informatician, head of the Department of Computational Biology
at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, and recipient of Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2008.

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Overall the quality of covid-19 reporting in India was only 0.26, which showed poor reporting across the country.

Researchers ranked the states according to its availability, accessibility, granularity and privacy. This framework was used to calculate a covid-19 data reporting score (CDRS) for 29 states during a two week period- from May 19 to June 1. CDRS ranged from 0(lowest) to 1 (highest).

The study by researchers from Stanford University, Tech Industry (USA) and Aerosol Industry (Switzerland) on covid-19 data reporting scores across India revealed that Odisha, Karnataka and Kerala are at the top for quality reporting.

The average scores for three top states were Karnataka (0.61), Kerala (0.52) and Odisha(0.51).
However states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have fared the worst in accurate data reporting and showed a poor rating of 0.0.

The study, which is yet to be peer-viewed, was published as a preprint ‘medRxiv’ on July 21.

According to the research, transparent and accessible reporting of covid-19 data is crucial for public health efforts.

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