Queries related to graphical representations in academic publications.
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Gnuplot in thesis and articles or not?
I'm doing an astrophysics thesis with a lot of programming in Python. I'm currently using gnuplot for my plots, but I wonder if this is actually looking quite professional. Are there other options ...
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What are good principles for creating figures?
This thought came into mind when I was reading Points of view: Elements of visual style.
While there are a lot of questions on software and strategies to make and edit figures, I am more curious ...
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Using a software screenshot in a paper
When writing a paper which, as an aside, talks about the design of a user interface on a particular piece of software, can one insert a (correctly labeled and referenced) screenshot of the software to ...
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Request for high res figures: what should I be mindful of?
A researcher in my field has written to ask me high resolution files for 5 figures from 3 different papers of mine. He states:
Currently I am revising one review article where I have used several ...
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Standard for figure description in main text and its placement in a report/paper
I heard of this rule/recommendation (or may be its opposite) - Always let the figures come after they are described in the text.
What is the correct rule? What's the logic? Is it always followed?
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Quality of an image for publication reproduced from another source
I have my paper back from a reviewer. The main point is that a quality of the image is not good enough for the publication. I reproduced this image from another paper (with permission) but the only ...
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Are there guidelines for amount and content of text in figure captions for theses?
In writing my thesis in geosciences I have a number of figures with a fair amount of text content. Is there some limit I should adhere to -- say for example max 5 lines -- before I should just write ...
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How much do figures need to differ to avoid copyright claims?
It sometimes arise that I need to use, for an article, a book chapter or any other written work, figures that I have already published (not figures published by others). These are usually schematic ...
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What is proper acknowledgment for figure authorship in a book chapter?
A senior researcher, with whom I worked a few years ago, is writing a book chapter. He contacted me to ask what was the latest work of our group on the topic of his chapter. I gave him a few links to ...
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Reproducing figures in blog/SE posts
Sometimes when I am writing a review blog post (or an answer on SE), it is convenient to include a figure from the original paper. Some journals (say PNAS) have policies that explicitly allow ...
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Do high-profile journals edit authors’ figures?
I have a paper published in a Angewandte Chemie, “one of the most renowned chemistry journals”, and realized that the figures have been edited from the version I had submitted. They did not tell us ...
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How formal should figures in a thesis be?
I am currently writing my masters thesis. I include in it a screenshot of a webpage, in which I want to point at some components and explain what each of them does. What I did so far is that I draw ...
