Christopher Leonard:High-quality figures, graphs, photos can add enormously to the understanding, and indeed the pleasure, of reading a manuscript. Several complex concepts can be easily communicated via a graph for instance (I’m thinking of the coronavirus growth chart in particular here: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-eu.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe853add0-6eea-11ea-89df-41bea055720b?fit=scale-down&quality=highest&source=next&width=1260
So yes, editors value good figures highly.
But you are also right in saying that ‘bad’ figures will count against the paper. At least a little. Common examples are things cut and pasted from other journals and cropped/scaled-up so they are obviously pixelated and in bad shape, scans of photocopies of photos, and - at the other end of the scale - people often spend a long time on image manipulation to copy parts of an image, rotate it, crop it, and pretend it is their own work.
As with text, there is a continuum of misconduct, from copying images without attribution and just poor-quality images, to forensically manipulated images which are a form of forgery.
Any figures in your manuscript should be high enough quality to be printed (300 dpi), should be your own work, or - if from another paper - clearly referenced as such, and you may need to approach the publisher to acquire the rights to republish it in your manuscript.
高质量的图形、图表和照片可以极大地增加读者对手稿的理解,以及阅读的乐趣。一些复杂的概念可以很容易地通过图形例如沟通(我想尤其是冠状病毒成长图表:https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-eu.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe853add0-6eea-11ea-89df-41bea055720b?fit=scale-down&quality=highest&source=next&width=1260
是的,编辑们非常看重好的数据。但你也说得对,“糟糕的”数据将对文章不利。至少有一点。常见的例子是从其他期刊复制粘贴,人们经常花很长时间在图像处理图像的复制部分,旋转它,作物,假装这是他们自己的工作。
与文本一样,存在一系列的不当行为,从没有署名的复制图像和质量低劣的图像,到作为伪造形式的法医学处理图像。
你的文稿中的任何数字都应该是高质量的,可以印刷(300dpi),应该是你自己的作品,或者——如果来自另一篇论文——明确引用,你可能需要联系出版商,获得在你的文稿中重新出版它的权利。
2020-03-26 16:06