Does a Graphical Abstract Bring More Visibility to Your Paper?
A graphical abstract (GA) represents a piece of artwork that is intended to summarize the main findings of an article for readers at a single glance. Many publishers currently encourage authors to supplement their articles with GAs, in the hope that such a convenient visual summary will facilitate r...
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| author | Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig Ulrich Pferschy Dongdong Wang Andrei Mocan Atanas G. Atanasov |
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| description | A graphical abstract (GA) represents a piece of artwork that is intended to summarize the main findings of an article for readers at a single glance. Many publishers currently encourage authors to supplement their articles with GAs, in the hope that such a convenient visual summary will facilitate readers with a clearer outline of papers that are of interest and will result in improved overall visibility of the respective publication. To test this assumption, we statistically compared publications with or without GA published in Molecules between March 2014 and March 2015 with regard to several output parameters reflecting visibility. Contrary to our expectations, manuscripts published without GA performed significantly better in terms of PDF downloads, abstract views, and total citations than manuscripts with GA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study on the effectiveness of GA for attracting attention to scientific publications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e03262f092c46b994641e6afae3c7792022-12-22T00:58:43ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492016-09-01219124710.3390/molecules21091247molecules21091247Does a Graphical Abstract Bring More Visibility to Your Paper?Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig0Ulrich Pferschy1Dongdong Wang2Andrei Mocan3Atanas G. Atanasov4Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 4/1, 8010 Graz, AustriaDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 15, 8010 Graz, AustriaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Botany, Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, AustriaA graphical abstract (GA) represents a piece of artwork that is intended to summarize the main findings of an article for readers at a single glance. Many publishers currently encourage authors to supplement their articles with GAs, in the hope that such a convenient visual summary will facilitate readers with a clearer outline of papers that are of interest and will result in improved overall visibility of the respective publication. To test this assumption, we statistically compared publications with or without GA published in Molecules between March 2014 and March 2015 with regard to several output parameters reflecting visibility. Contrary to our expectations, manuscripts published without GA performed significantly better in terms of PDF downloads, abstract views, and total citations than manuscripts with GA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study on the effectiveness of GA for attracting attention to scientific publications.http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/21/9/1247graphical abstractarticle viewscitationspdf downloadsscientific writingscience communicationresearch visibilityonline attentionsocial media sharesAltmetric score |
| spellingShingle | Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig Ulrich Pferschy Dongdong Wang Andrei Mocan Atanas G. Atanasov Does a Graphical Abstract Bring More Visibility to Your Paper? Molecules graphical abstract article views citations pdf downloads scientific writing science communication research visibility online attention social media shares Altmetric score |
| title | Does a Graphical Abstract Bring More Visibility to Your Paper? |
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| title_short | Does a Graphical Abstract Bring More Visibility to Your Paper? |
| title_sort | does a graphical abstract bring more visibility to your paper |
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