About GigaScience
GigaScience is an open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences.
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We are an open access, open data, open peer-review journal that publishes all research objects, such as data, software tools, and workflows.
You can visit our site or read our blog. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
Editor-in-chief Scott Edmunds Scott Edmunds leads the GigaScience peer review efforts, working alongside the team through the evaluation and publishing process.
Our evaluation model
Resources are managed using the FAIR principles that state that all scientific data management and stewardship should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
If you would like to review a manuscript submitted to Gigascience, please review our open peer-review policy.
PReF
The Preprint Review Features (PReF) describes key elements of each group’s evaluation activities. Read the paper to learn about PReF.
- Review requested by
- Non-authors
- Reviewer selected by
- Editor, Service or community
- Public interaction
- No
- Inclusion of author response
- No
- Decision
- Binary decision
- Review coverage
- Specific aspects, complete paper
- Reviewer identity known to
- Public
- Competing interests
- Checked
Our team
We have a team of in-house editors who handle peer reviews and invite external peer reviewers.
Our goal
We aim to revolutionise publishing by promoting reproducibility of analyses and data dissemination, organisation, understanding, and use.
Content license
All published content (incuding open peer reviews) are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license.