Gigabyte (journal)

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]

Gigabyte

Discipline	Life sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Scott Edmunds
Publication details
History	2020–present
Publisher	GigaScience Press
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Impact factor	1.2 (2024)
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ISO 4	Gigabyte
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ISSN	2709-4715
Links
Journal homepage Online access

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.