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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

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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

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  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. ^ a b "Crossref announces inaugural Metadata Awards". Research Information. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2025-07-24.