Paste your paper abstract. Get a journal-ready graphical abstract with editable text labels in about a minute.
Six layouts pulled from real submission categories — swap in your own figures and labels.
Compound structure on the left, target protein interaction in the center, and a therapeutic outcome icon on the right — the standard three-panel flow for medicinal chemistry submissions.
Patient cohort, intervention arm, and primary outcome laid out left to right, matching how Elsevier's clinical journals expect trial results to read at a glance.
Input dataset, model architecture block, and a performance metric callout — built for ML and computer-vision papers where the pipeline itself is the finding.
Tissue sample, expression heatmap, and pathway diagram in sequence, sized for a single-column journal figure.
Pollutant source, transport pathway, and measured environmental impact, a layout common in Elsevier's environmental-science journals.
Search-to-synthesis funnel condensed into one panel — a compact companion to a full PRISMA flow diagram in the supplementary materials.
Every publisher sets its own graphical abstract rules — treat these as a starting point and confirm against the target journal's guide for authors before final submission.
Applies across most ScienceDirect journals unless a specific journal states otherwise
Each publisher's size and format rules differ and do change over time
A graphical abstract is a single image, submitted with the text abstract, that summarizes a paper's main finding at a glance. Journals show it in the table of contents, the article page, and social-media previews — often the only part a reader sees before opening the PDF.
Unlike a figure from the results section, it is built for that job: no unfamiliar axis labels, no statistical detail — just the input, method, and headline result as icons and short labels. Journals judge it separately and set their own size and format rules.
The graphical abstract maker on this page turns your text abstract into that image automatically: it drafts the narrative flow, generates four visual variants, and lets you edit every label before exporting at journal size.
Paste the abstract you already wrote. The graphical abstract generator reads it, identifies the input, method, and result, and drafts four visual layouts without you touching a canvas.
AI drafts get the broad strokes right and the wording wrong just often enough to need a fix. Click any label to edit its text, resize it, move it, or add a new one — the graphical abstract maker treats the AI output as a starting layout, not a final file.
Pick an Elsevier, Nature, Cell, or MDPI preset before export, or set a custom pixel size, and download as a 300dpi PNG or vector SVG — no separate resizing step before you upload to the submission system.
* Exports high-resolution PNG today — SVG export coming soon.
From a pasted abstract to a submission-ready file in three steps.
Copy the text abstract from your manuscript — 80 to 8,000 characters is enough for the generator to identify the input, method, and result.
Choose from four AI-generated layouts, then drag labels into position and edit their wording to match your actual figures and terminology.
Select the Elsevier, MDPI, or custom size preset and download as a 300dpi PNG or SVG, ready to attach to your submission.
* Exports high-resolution PNG today — SVG export coming soon.
A good graphical abstract tells the paper's story in the order a reader's eye naturally moves — left to right or top to bottom — without requiring the caption to explain what is happening. If a colleague outside your subfield cannot describe the finding after five seconds of looking, the abstract is carrying too much detail.
It also respects the journal's own rules: correct pixel dimensions, no citation numbers, no legend text, and a file format the submission system accepts. An abstract that looks perfect on your screen but gets rejected at upload for being the wrong size or format costs more time than making it right the first time.
Submission-practical answers before you export.
* Exports high-resolution PNG today — SVG export coming soon.
Paste your text abstract and get a journal-sized, editable graphical abstract in about a minute — free, no signup.