Academics Protest China’s Censorship Requests | The Scientist Magazine®

"Scholars have formed a peer-review boycott to encourage journals to take a firm stance against requests to cull sensitive articles....More than 1,000 people from around the world have signed a petition calling on major journal publishers not to censor their offerings within China in response to governmental pressure. The petition pledges a peer-review boycott, stating, “we will not agree to provide peer review service until editors confirm that their publications do not censor content in the [People’s Republic of China], and we call on all others to do so as well.” ..."