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Andy Smith
Production Operations Manager
What Is A Graphical Abstract?
• Created by author
• Not peer reviewed
• Not required at submission
• Single-panel image
• Quick, easy to digest
snapshot of a paper’s main
findings
• First impression
• Whatever you need it to be
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Origin of GAs: Article of the Future
• 2010, Cell and primary and Trends journals
• Tabbed navigation structure
• Introduction, Results, Discussion, Experimental
Procedures
• Figures in “film reel”, with legend, relevant citation within
article
• Highlights + eTOC
• Video abstracts
• Integration of Supplemental Experimental Procedures and
Supplemental Figures into the main article
Origin of GAs: Article of the Future (cont.)
• In AotF, GA was required file on Cell
• Concerted effort for ~2 years on
helping authors make effective GAs
• SnapShot lessons learned
• Pathways, comparisons, cycles, and
tables
• Redrawing GAs
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Training Authors
• Created the CP GA
Guidelines PDF
• Give an author a GA,
and you’ll exhaust your
illustration resources.
Teach an author to
create a GA, and you’ll
have space to exhaust
your illustration
resources in other ways.
https://els-jbs-prod-
cdn.literatumonline.com/pb/assets/raw/shared/figureguidelines/GA_guide-
1537202744020.pdf
A GA Should…
• Have a clear start and end, “reading from top to bottom or left to
right”
• Provide a visual indication of the biological context of the results
depicted (subcellular location, tissue or cell type, species, etc.)
• Be distinct from any model figures or diagrams included in the
paper itself
• Emphasize the new findings from the current paper without
including excess details from previous literature
• Avoid the inclusion of features that are more speculative (unless
the speculative nature can be made apparent visually)
• Not include data items of any type; all the content should be in a
graphical form
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Before / After
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Similar Resources
• https://biorender.com/blog/creating-a-winning-graphical-abstract-the-
comprehensive-guide/
The Ultimate Sophistication
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The Ultimate Sophistication (cont.)
The Ultimate Sophistication (cont.)
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Bang for the Buck
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Lessons Learned
• Keep it simple
• Authors will do the work if it adds value and the instructions are clear
• Two big ifs!
• Must be able to scale, must be able to productionize, must be able to
make it routine
• Find ways to leverage the GA (or any visual element)