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<\/a>Are you already convinced to start adding graphical abstracts into your work? Not yet? ok, let\u2019s continue then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2006 the Annals of Surgery Journal<\/em> adopted visual abstracts as a way to increase and disseminate the journal visibility and access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to measure if the new strategy was being effective, in 2007 the journal conducted a case-control crossover study<\/a> comparing outcomes using Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers compared two types of tweets, one with only the title of the article and another with the title plus a visual abstract. For a year-long, they released the tweets and collected the number of visualizations, retweets, and how many times the article was truly visited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The study found out that the tweets which had the article title plus the visual abstract had 8 times more views, 8 times more retweets, and 3 times more article visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A similar study conducted by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in 2019,<\/a> used Twitter as well to compare the numbers of impressions (views) of tweets without images and tweets with a visual abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Less than a week after running the experiment tweets with visual abstracts had achieved 7 times more impressions than tweets with only textual content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, visual content such as an infographic, graphic abstracts, or visual presentations, are indeed responsible for capturing the reader\u2019s attention increasing dissemination and accesses plus it improves the textual content perception allowing the reader to understand important topics faster and even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end, is not that all we wish for? Make our research reach more people inside and outside academia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that is exactly why Mind the Graph<\/a> was built for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The platform\u2019s purpose is to increase scientists\u2019 impact, turning them into designers, providing total autonomy to better communicate their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We know that it might seem and feel a little intimidating at first, but we are here to help you with whatever you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding a graphical abstract<\/strong> to your paper is one of the best ways to capture someone\u2019s attention and convince them to read your full article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The abstract should be a glance at your full article, or a resume, with the highlights of your work, that will be detailed and discussed inside the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the abstract is one of the most important sections of a research paper, it must be appealing enough, and quickly understandable, for the reader to decide if they whether want to read the full article, or not. And the graphical abstract can help you immensely with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding a graphic abstract to your article is an amazing strategy to increase the dissemination of your work and hence your numbers of readers and quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even if the journal that you are submitting your paper does not request it, a graphical abstract will improve the reader\u2019s perception of your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, your reader will understand better and faster what your work is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, a graphic abstract, a.k.a infographics, is basically a figure that gives and explains scientific information in a visual form and should be a self-explanatory way to transmit a message. It has to be designed to give the reader an instantaneous understanding of a certain subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Equipped with all the Mind the Graph<\/a> tools available you can create great visual content without suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The platform is surprisingly easy to use with a huge library containing everything that you may need (and if it doesn\u2019t we can also help you with that<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s see an example of how Mind the Graph turns your science beautiful improving your visual content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a graphical abstract that allows us, the readers, to grasp the main idea of the paper. The first illustration belongs to the original paper published <\/a>and right below it is the Mind the Graph<\/a> version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you agree that the graphical abstract allowed us, to capture the paper\u2019s methodology and conclusion in less than 15 seconds? The beauty and accuracy of the illustrations demonstrate the actual methodology performed with the mice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding an appealing and detailed illustration (with Mind the Graph<\/a>\u2019s platform tools) to your paper will make your work stands out, be readily understandable plus fascinate your audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, are you ready to start creating your visual content and reach more and more people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s go! Start right now<\/a> using Mind the Graph<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As researchers, we all get used to a traditional structure of scientific publications and scientific works. We must write an introduction, describe the methodology, present and discuss the results, to finally wrap everything up in a conclusion. 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