Gifted Child Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of education.

[2] In December, 2018, under the leadership of Co-Editors Jill L. Adelson and Michael S. Matthews, GCQ was the first gifted education journal to sign the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines.

In March 2019, they announced the journal's commitment to transparency, openness, and research improvement in an open-access article.

To that end, GCQ submission guidelines were expanded to encourage submission of replication studies with peer review, with particular encouragement to use Registered Reports for replication studies (Level III); to require authors to provide appropriate citations for data and materials, when appropriate (Level III); and to require authors to state whether data are available, and if so, where to access them (Level I).

The badges indicate the following practices: (1) data are available in a public, open-access repository with a DOI or other permanent path; (2) materials (e.g., analytic code, interview protocols) are available in a public, open-access repository with a DOI or other permanent path; and (3) a preregistration (and, if applicable, analysis) plan was registered in a public, open-access repository with a DOI or other permanent path prior to the examination of the data or observing the outcomes.