
Oxford University Press to stop publishing China-sponsored science journal
Amy Hawkins in Beijing
created: July 16, 2025, 11:22 a.m. | updated: July 17, 2025, 8:51 a.m.
A statement published on the website of Forensic Sciences Research (FSR) states that OUP will stop publishing the quarterly journal after this year.
FSR is a journal that comes from China’s Academy of Forensic Science, an agency that sits under the Ministry of Justice.
The academy describes FSR as “the only English quarterly journal in the field of forensic science in China that focuses on forensic medicine”.
A statement published on FSR’s website, which is hosted by OUP, said: “Forensic Sciences Research will no longer be published by Oxford University Press (OUP) after the 2025 volume.
There are also concerns that this kind of forensic DNA sampling could produce research that enhances the mass surveillance of those populations.
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