GigaScience

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GigaScience
DisciplineLife sciences
LanguageEnglish
Edited byXu Xun
Publication details
History2012-present
Publisher
FrequencyContinuous
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
3.9 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4GigaScience
Indexing
CODENGIGABJ
ISSN2047-217X
LCCN2013243152
OCLC no.835660742
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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Goodman L, Edmunds SC, Basford AT (July 2012). "Large and linked in scientific publishing". GigaScience. 1 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/2047-217X-1-1. PMC 3617448. PMID 23587310.
  2. ^ Davies K (23 September 2011). "Big Data, BGI and GigaScience". Bio-IT World. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. ^ "BGI and BioMed Central Launch GigaScience "Big Data" Journal". DuraSpace. 23 July 2012. Archived from the original on 10 March 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  4. ^ Oxford University Press (27 October 2016). "GigaScience joins the Oxford University Press journals program". EurekAlert!. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  5. ^ "2018 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  6. ^ Foundation, Open Bioinformatics. "GigaScience: 15 years of great open science publishing & the end of an era?". Open Bioinformatics Foundation. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  7. ^ Orrall, Avery (3 November 2025). "Dozens of board members resign from big-data journal after mass staff firings". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  8. ^ Xiao SZ, Armit C, Edmunds S, Goodman L, Li P, Tuli MA, Hunter CI (January 2019). "Increased interactivity and improvements to the GigaScience database, GigaDB". Database. 2019. doi:10.1093/database/baz016. PMC 6376146. PMID 30753480.
  9. ^ "Galaxy Series Data Intensive Reproducible Research". GigaScience. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  10. ^ "GigaScience". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  12. ^ "GigaScience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.
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