The rise of visual summaries has changed how researchers discover and share papers online. Early evaluations found that tweets with visual abstracts produced substantially higher impressions, retweets, and article visits compared with…

Multimedia summaries of research are no longer niche: publishers and authors are increasingly using short videos to explain findings, boost discoverability, and widen reach. A cross-disciplinary analysis found a sevenfold increase in video…

A concise, informative abstract is the gateway to any review article. Editors and readers often decide whether to read a full review based on the abstract alone. It must therefore reflect the article’s purpose, scope, method, main findings,…

Visual summaries are now a mainstream element of scholarly publishing. Dozens of major journals request or encourage a graphical abstract at submission, and more than 100 journals and institutions have adopted visual-abstract strategies for…

Short, well-produced video abstracts can increase article visibility and social attention. Studies report higher article views, improved Altmetric scores, and—in some cases—modest increases in citations. This article defines the main…