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FOI2022/00096: Researchfish reputation management

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Case reference FOI2022/00096

Published 18 May 2022

Request

Request Received: 18 March 2022

1. Please provide all correspondence between Researchfish and UKRI from the last 5 years relating to Researchfish reporting on behaviour of researchers to UKRI based on their social media statements about Researchfish. Please include at least a search for Researchfish emails and the words 'Twitter' or 'social media' in correspondence to and from UKRI.

2. Please provide any documents or databases that UKRI maintain on the public criticism of Researchfish by researchers on social media, and if they exist, policies regarding their maintenance and use.

Additional clarification received on 12 April 2022:

Thank you for your response. I would like to narrow the search parameters as you advise to several narrow searches which I hope produce a subset of the results I was intending to receive with my earlier request.

All emails to or from senders using the domain "researchfish.com" featuring any (not all) of the following keywords, since the start of 2019.

1: "oldnorthroad"
2: "Greger_Larson"
3: "WillBowden1"
4: "CathNoakes"
5: "DrLeonBlack"
6: "bedcatalysis"

Response

Response Sent: 16 May 2022

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