Bob Edenbach

February 2024

Hello Bob Edenbach. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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I'm not being paid to make edits. I added the rank of the institution in the Nature Index, as that institution promotes the rank on their own website. The Nature Index is free publicly available database that shows research output based on author share of published articles. 195.128.10.106 (talk) 02:12, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

So it's pure coincidence that you made edits identical to those made by Rf-sn276‎ who is an employee of that company? ElKevbo (talk) 02:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Not a coincidence at all, as I told him to up the data for the top institutions in our rankings with the 2023 rank. I updated the page for the Nature Index, with the correct number of journals as 64 medical journals were added to the Nature Index last year and it now has 145 journals as opposed to 82 previously. You can see my edit here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nature_Index&action=history

Everything I updated is accurate.

I then noticed on the page for the of University of Tokyo the listing for the Nature Index was inaccurate and updated it with the 2023 data. The Nature Index was already listed on the page. Which I see you have wrongly reverted. Bob Edenbach (talk) 05:14, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Here's an example of one of University of Tokyo's press releases, the Nature Index is an important ranking for many institutions that want to benchmark their research output.

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/articles/z1304_00018.html Bob Edenbach (talk) 05:21, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Here is the page before I edited it, I fixed it with the correct rank for UTokyo in 2023. I did not add it originally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_of_Tokyo&oldid=1209710729 Bob Edenbach (talk) 05:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Here a link to the FAQ for the Nature Index: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/faq

The annual tables with institution rankings are published each year in Q2, including by sector (academic, corporate, healthcare, government and NPO/NGO). Stories on the Nature Index are published in the scientific journal Nature.

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=nature-index

I intend to update pages relevant to Nature Index with the most accurate content and data. Bob Edenbach (talk) 07:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 02:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)