How to Prepare a Graphical Abstract for a Scientific Paper

Some scientific journals are asking authors to prepare a graphical abstract to be submitted along with the manuscript. Graphical abstracts can help attract readers to your papers and, in my opinion, are worth the time and effort to craft them. In this video tutorial, I talk about the benefits of graphical abstracts to the author and briefly show how to prepare one in PowerPoint.

00:00 What is a graphical abstract?
00:27 Examples
01:05 Why have a graphical abstract?
02:26 What goes into a graphical abstract?
02:59 How to make a graphical abstract in PowerPoint.

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