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] The editor-in-chief is Scott Edmunds. 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]

GigaScience
DisciplineLife sciences
LanguageEnglish
Edited byScott Edmunds
Publication details
History2012-present
Publisher
FrequencyContinuous
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
11.8 (2023)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4GigaScience
Indexing
CODENGIGABJ
ISSN2047-217X
LCCN2013243152
OCLC no.835660742
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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.[6] 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.[7]

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,[8] the Science Citation Index Expanded,[9] CAS, CNKI, EMBASE and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 11.8.[10]

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!. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  5. ^ "2018 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Galaxy Series Data Intensive Reproducible Research". GigaScience. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  8. ^ "GigaScience". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  10. ^ "GigaScience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.
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