Research communication field notes
Scientific Figure Guides
Practical workflows for planning, prompting, and reviewing explanatory scientific figures—without confusing generated illustration with measured evidence.
Browse the guidesStart with the communication problem
A scientific figure can present measured data, document an observation, explain a mechanism, summarize a workflow, or provide structural context. Those jobs require different tools and different standards of evidence.
These guides focus on explanatory diagrams and illustrations. They show how to define the claim, choose a layout, write a precise prompt, and review every generated element against the manuscript and source material.
Guide index
Learn the workflow, then open the tool
Each guide provides a direct answer, decision framework, examples, reusable prompts, common mistakes, and a scientific review checklist.
12 min readPublication workflow
Make Scientific Figures for Publication
Plan, draft, review, and prepare a scientific figure for a paper without confusing explanatory illustration with measured data.
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11 min readVisual summary guide
Make a Graphical Abstract
Turn a paper’s central question, decisive approach, and supported finding into one concise visual story.
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10 min readPrompt writing guide
Scientific Figure Prompts
Write figure prompts that specify scientific content, relationships, layout, labels, and exclusions before visual style.
Read the guideWhat every guide keeps separate
- Measured evidence versus explanatory illustration
- Scientific content versus visual treatment
- Generated draft versus reviewed publication asset
- General guidance versus the target journal’s current rules
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