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]

GigaDB and GigaGalaxy

In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, GigaScience has built and integrated its own disciplinary repository: GigaDB.[7] 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.[8]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,[9] the Science Citation Index Expanded,[10] CAS, CNKI, EMBASE and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.9.[11]

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. ↑ "Increased interactivity and improvements to the GigaScience database, GigaDB". Database 2019. January 2019. doi:10.1093/database/baz016. PMID 30753480. 
  8. ↑ "Galaxy Series Data Intensive Reproducible Research". Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/galaxy_series_data_intensive_reproducible_research. 
  9. ↑ "GigaScience". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101596872. 
  10. ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. http://mjl.clarivate.com/. 
  11. ↑ "GigaScience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024. 



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