Gigabyte (journal)

Gigabyte
DisciplineLife sciences
LanguageEnglish
Edited byScott Edmunds
Publication details
History2020–present
Publisher
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
1.2 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Gigabyte
Indexing
ISSN2709-4715
Links

Gigabyte (often styled GigaByte) is a peer-reviewed open-science journal published by GigaScience Press since 2020.[1] It focuses on short, focused, data-driven articles describing and sharing open research data sets and software.[2] Using an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process to make it simple to change views, languages and embed interactive content, in 2022 it won the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing.[3]

Mandating Open Peer Review and the use of preprints, it was the second journal after eLife to follow a “Publish, Review, Curate” model of peer-review, linking reviews to preprints and providing editor’s assessment of each reviewed preprint.[4] Through being a group publicly reviewing preprints, articles published by the journal are eligible and have previously won Ben Barres Spotlight Awards for researchers from underrepresented backgrounds.[5] In 2025, GigaScience Press won one of the first Crossref Excellence in Metadata awards based on the quality of the metadata published by Gigabyte.[6]

In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, like its sister journal GigaScience, it uses its own in-house disciplinary repository: GigaDB.[7] The journal is abstracted and indexed by PubMed/PMC/DOAJ, Web of Science (ESCI), Scopus,[8] Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, and CNKI. Its 2024 Journal Impact Factor is 1.2.

References

  1. ^ Edmunds SC, Goodman L (1 July 2020). "GigaByte: Publishing at the Speed of Research". Gigabyte. 2020: 1–7. doi:10.46471/gigabyte.1. PMC 9631982. PMID 36824595.
  2. ^ "Protecting Your Lab's Data Integrity". Lab Manager. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Estelle awarded ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing". The Bookseller. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. ^ "River Valley helps GigaByte Journal join the "Publish, Review, Curate" Transformation of the Publishing Paradigm | STM Publishing News". 3 October 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  5. ^ "Ben Barres Spotlight Awards: Announcing the winners for 2024". eLife. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  6. ^ Korzec, Kornelia; Tkaczyk, Dominika. "Meet six winners of the first ever Crossref Metadata Awards". doi:10.64000/xh94q-w7335.
  7. ^ Armit C, Tuli MA, Hunter CI (June 2022). "A Decade of GigaScience: GigaDB and the Open Data Movement". GigaScience. 11 giac053. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac053. PMC 9197680. PMID 35701374.
  8. ^ https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101188713. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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