Many scientific journals have been demanding visual content such as infographics or graphical abstracts to be submitted together with written articles.
However, produce visual content is not always easy and intuitive right? That why I would like to know: For you, what is the biggest difficulty to create an infographic or a graphic abstract?
1. Difficulty to know what to do and how to do it
2. Not using a proper tool to do that or not knowing a proper tool to do that
3. Lack of time to do
4. Other (tell me about it)
I think almost No. 1.
Not knowing how to prepare flowcharts and mind mapping.
See our paper
How to make an engaging infographic?
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-097023
Article How to make an engaging infographic?
Keeping graphic simple enough to be readily understood. There are many digital tools to assist you in making an infographic. But it is critical that you think first about what information you want to convey and to make sure your reader will understand your graphic easily and correctly.
Hey people, I would like to share with you this blog post that was one of the first contents that helped me to produce my graphical abstracts. Hope you enjoy it. https://mindthegraph.com/blog/create-effective-graphical-abstract/
Hi Chris Oliver , very interesting article! Would you share the pdf? I don't have access to this journal.
I feel graphical abstracts are aimed to ease dissemination of finding and conclusion.
Unfortunately, however there are lack of standard guidelines for making them till date which creates confusion
I see the point, indeed, it can be difficult considering that most researchers don't have the skill or the right tools.
We wrote a post with some guidelines and tips to help with that Pranav Ish and Karthikeyan. P. Iyengar
https://mindthegraph.com/blog/graphical-abstract-for-springer/
I hope it helps!
I recommend Peakcells.com
They provide high quality and scientifically accurate graphics
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