GigaScience Press

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GigaScience Press is the Hong Kong-based publishing arm of BGI Group, currently publishing the open access journals GigaScience (co-published with Oxford University Press), GigaByte, and the GigaDB data publishing platform. [1] Focusing on open science, its journals have combined data publishing, transparent open peer review alongside carrying out other experiments in publishing more reproducible papers.

Awards and recognition

Their journals have won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for Innovation in journal publishing in 2018, [2] , and the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing in 2022 [3] for these efforts. In 2025, GigaScience Press won one of the first Crossref Excellence in Metadata awards [4] based on the quality of their metadata. [4]

References

  1. "Home". Gigascience Press. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  2. "2018 Award Winners | PROSE Awards". proseawards.com. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  3. "Estelle awarded ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  4. 1 2 "Crossref announces inaugural Metadata Awards". Research Information. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2025-07-24.