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
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
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Oxford University Press (27 October 2016). "GigaScience joins the Oxford University Press journals program". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 22 June 2017. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/oupu-gjt102716.php ↩
"2018 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 14 June 2019. https://proseawards.com/winners/2018-award-winners/ ↩
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. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376146 ↩
"Galaxy Series Data Intensive Reproducible Research". GigaScience. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 June 2019. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/galaxy_series_data_intensive_reproducible_research ↩
"GigaScience". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2 June 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101596872 ↩
"Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2 June 2018. http://mjl.clarivate.com/ ↩
"GigaScience". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science. /wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports ↩