Questions tagged [graphics]
Queries related to graphical representations in academic publications, documents, or websites.
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Awkward scaling in figure [closed]
I am working on my first publishable paper and I'm having some trouble getting the scale right. I am using matplotlib and python to create my figures. I tried keeping everything at true scale, by ...
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Captions and alt-texts for figures
Say a publisher wants to add alt-text to figures for online publication. But you already have captioned your images such that the figure+caption can be understood in isolation from the text. What is ...
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Which p-value should be included in figure caption of scientific paper?
There is the p-value that is the significance threshold (in my area pretty much always <0.05) and then there is the p-value that is the result from my statistical test.
Let's say I have a trial ...
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Using material from institutional repository when using the original paper is behind a paywall
I am currently writing a review article. In this article, I am using a lot of images from other papers. Among the many figures I am using, one figure is basically behind a paywall, and I would need to ...
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Figure permissions when both publishing and hosting on Arxiv - Needed twice?
I have prepared a paper for publication in an Elsevier journal (International Journal of Multiphase Flow) and, having not yet submitted it, I intend on uploading the preprint to Arxiv (which is a ...
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How do we provide permission to use a figure that we hired a graphic designer to create in SciRep?
We hired a graphical designer who made us fancy visualisations for our paper.We signed the contract and paid him. He gave us the files and transferred copyrights to the university.
Now, at the ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
Hand-drawn figures in papers were common in the old days. If I use hand-drawn figures (generated e.g. with the software Paint) for illustrations, will that result in a rejection of my manuscript?
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Should I put 0 with decimal points (e.g., 0.00) in a figure for visual consistency? [closed]
I have a question about the visual consistency on the figure axes. Let's say I have a figure and on its x axis the following values are displayed:
-0.50 -0.40 -0.30 -0.20 -0.10 0 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0....
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Cite PowerPoint Icons
Microsoft PowerPoint provides a wide variety of icons. I want to use them in a graphic, but can't find any usage terms. Do I have to cite them? And if so, how?
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Best tools to create figures for papers/journal [closed]
What are good tools to create figures for papers/journals similar to the figure below which is both clear and well designed? Which tools can I use to create similar figures?
Features: Smoothly bended ...
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Is it necessary to repeat the axis labelling if the images have the same axis?
I have two graphs that are part of a multi-panel figure. It is clear from both the caption and the graphs that the axes mean the same thing. Should I repeat the axis labels in both graphs, or should I ...
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Can we reference teaser images in our papers?
The conference I'm submitting my paper allows for teaser images. I want to reference the teaser image in the text. Is this usually allowed? If it is, what is the standard way of referencing it? I mean,...
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Why am I requested to compile my figure files with 300 DPI?
I will submit an article to Geoscientific Model Development, and the submission instructions requests that I ensure that my figure files are "compiled as *.pdf, *.ps, *.eps, *.jpg, *.png, or *....
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Is it legal to use Helvetica on scientific plots?
I am making some histograms for an upcoming manuscript. My advisors hate the default font of my plotting library (matplotlib to be precise) so they asked me to change it to something they are familiar ...
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Copyright-free maps for journal figures
I am writing an epidemiology paper for an academic journal, and would like to have a figure showing the map of a geographical region of interest.
My current map was generated with OpenStreetMap data, ...
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Do I need to get the authors permission for creating a similar image?
Consider a situation where author X explains a concept on his website (no copyright marks etc.).
He also provides graphics to visualize what he puts in words in that explanaton.
I cited that ...
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Should I reproduce figures from other publications in my thesis to make it more self-contained?
I am working on a computer science master's thesis wherein I occasionally cite figures and tables from other works. Currently, the way I am doing this is something like
Foo et al. (2021) visualise ...
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Is there a way for students to use a figure from an article, for a 'students-only' presentation, without paying a hefty sum?
There is a figure that is unbelievably clear and efficient in getting my point across. More specifically, I'm doing a presentation about modeling a certain real-world object to math students who are ...
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Copyright of a custom image of a well-known game character [closed]
This question is quite similar to another one I already found here.
I would like to use an image of a very well known plumber in my upcoming research paper. Of course, I do not own any rights to that ...
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Is it okay to re-render a plot used in another publication?
I found a chart in another publication that I'd like to cite, however it's small and is a dot plot when it should be a line plot (I guess because the data points were non-contiguous and the authors ...
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Submission requirements for tables and figures in separate files
I am considering a submission to The European Journal of Finance. The manuscript is written in LaTeX and according to the Guide for Authors some changes have to be made. Yet, the instructions do not ...
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How do I ensure that the colormap shows well in black and white?
One referee comment says that "Not sure the colormap shows up well in black and white". Two figures in my manuscript are shown below. Do I have to change the colormap settings? If I do, how ...
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How to improve quality of figures after reviewers have mentioned it? [closed]
The paper we are working on was accepted and we got a comment saying "Quality of Figures could be improved".
All the figures that are given have been exported from matplotlib and have all ...
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Correct acknowledgment for a figure's digital rendering
If I draw a figure freehand, and then ask somebody else to render it digitally, and integrate the resulting product in a publication, what is the correct way of acknowledging this person's work?
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Which software is appropriate for drawing complicated block diagrams in academic papers?
What sort of software can I use to make block diagrams, such as those used in machine learning papers? For example, this graph:
From the paper: https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.676.pdf
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