Biology:GigaScience

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GigaScience is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2012.[1] It covers research and large data-sets that result from work in the biomedical and life sciences.[2] Originally, the journal was co-published by BioMed Central and the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI).[3] In 2016, it left BioMed Central to form a new partnership between the GigaScience Press department of BGI and Oxford University Press.[4] In 2018, GigaScience won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for Innovation in journal publishing in the multidisciplinary category.[5] In September 2025 BGI removed the international Editorial, Software and GigaDB curation teams, and Chief Scientist of BGI Group Xu Xun took over as publisher and editor-in-chief.[6] Due to the lack of consultation or communication with the editors or editorial board, in November 2025 the majority of the board resigned citing concerns about how these changes may affect the journal’s long-standing commitment to publishing rigorously reviewed, reproducible research.[7]

GigaDB and GigaGalaxy

In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, GigaScience has built and integrated its own disciplinary repository: GigaDB.[8] The journal also provides a Galaxy-based platform to analyze data, GigaGalaxy. The journal has tried to promote the use of Galaxy pipelines as publishable research outputs through its 'Galaxy Series' of articles.[9]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,[10] the Science Citation Index Expanded,[11] CAS, CNKI, EMBASE and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.9.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Large and linked in scientific publishing". GigaScience 1 (1): 1. July 2012. doi:10.1186/2047-217X-1-1. PMID 23587310. 
  2. ↑ Davies, Kevin (2011-09-23). "Big Data, BGI and GigaScience". Bio-IT World. http://www.bio-itworld.com/2011/09/23/big-data-bgi-gigascience.html. 
  3. ↑ "BGI and BioMed Central Launch GigaScience "Big Data" Journal". DuraSpace. 2012-07-23. http://www.duraspace.org/bgi-and-biomed-central-launch-gigascience-big-data-journal. 
  4. ↑ Oxford University Press (2016-10-27). "GigaScience joins the Oxford University Press journals program". EurekAlert!. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/oupu-gjt102716.php. 
  5. ↑ "2018 Award Winners". https://proseawards.com/winners/2018-award-winners/. 
  6. ↑ Foundation, Open Bioinformatics. "GigaScience: 15 years of great open science publishing & the end of an era?" (in en). https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/. 
  7. ↑ Orrall, Avery (2025-11-03). "Dozens of board members resign from big-data journal after mass staff firings" (in en-US). https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/03/dozens-of-board-members-resign-from-big-data-journal-after-mass-staff-firings/. 
  8. ↑ "Increased interactivity and improvements to the GigaScience database, GigaDB". Database 2019. January 2019. doi:10.1093/database/baz016. PMID 30753480. 
  9. ↑ "Galaxy Series Data Intensive Reproducible Research". Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/galaxy_series_data_intensive_reproducible_research. 
  10. ↑ "GigaScience". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101596872. 
  11. ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. http://mjl.clarivate.com/. 
  12. ↑ "GigaScience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024. 



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