While am uploading a paper to one of the journal. It asking me to uppload graphical abstract. can anyone help me how to make a graphical abstract and what is the necessity of Graphical Abstract.
A Graphical Abstract is something that many Elsevier journals request authors to provide, so I am guessing that that is the case here as well. General information about it with some examples can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/graphical-abstract.
Journals want to sell access to their papers, but they also want to be cited. A graphical abstract is longer and contains more information, making it more likely that the article will be cited without seeing the full version. Therefore, the impact score of the journal goes up.
Mind the Graph is an online platform to create graphical abstracts. There are a blog with several tutorials to make a graphical abstract (blog.mindthegraph.com)