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A brief history of scientific papers

18th century: Scientific papers are increasingly being printed instead of handwritten in order to make numerous copies.

In the mid 20th century, due to the new printing techniques, it also becomes more common to use colored figures instead of just black and white.

Early 21th century: Scientific papers are mostly read online on a computer or tablet display. Journals still print their issues for archiving purposes or library collections.

1665: First issue of ‘Philosophical Transactions’ which can be seen as the starting point for modern publishing journals and scientific papers.

Late 19th to mid 20th century: Halftone and offset printing make it easier and cheaper to include figures in scientific papers.

Late 20th century: With the invention of personal computers and the World Wide Web, it is easier than ever to read scientific publications.

With the aid of today’s technology, Scientview allows for a natural progression from static to dynamic figures, without disrupting the centuries-old publishing process.

A brief history of scientific papers

18th century: Scientific papers are increasingly being printed instead of handwritten in order to be able to make numerous copies.

In the mid 20th century, due to the new printing techniques, it also becomes more common to use colored figures instead of just black and white.

Early 21th century: Scientific papers are mostly read online on a computer or tablet display. Journals still print their issues for archiving purposes or library collections.

1665: First issue of ‘Philosophical Transactions’ which can be seen as the starting point for modern publishing journals and scientific papers.

Late 19th to mid 20th century: Halftone and offset printing make it easier and cheaper to include figures in scientific papers.

Late 20th century: With the invention of personal computers and the World Wide Web, it is easier than ever to read scientific publications.

With the aid of today’s technology, Scientview allows for a natural progression from static to dynamic figures, without disrupting the centuries-old publishing process.

A brief history of scientific papers

1665: First issue of ‘Philosophical Transactions’ which can be seen as the starting point for modern publishing journals and scientific papers.

18th century: Scientific papers are increasingly being printed instead of handwritten in order to be able to make numerous copies.

Late 19th to mid 20th century: Halftone and offset printing make it easier and cheaper to include figures in scientific papers.

In the mid 20th century, due to the new printing techniques, it also becomes more common to use colored figures instead of just black and white.

Late 20th century: With the invention of personal computers and the World Wide Web, it is easier than ever to read scientific publications.

Early 21th century: Scientific papers are mostly read online on a computer or tablet display. Journals still print their issues for archiving purposes or library collections.

With the aid of today's technology, Scientview allows for a natural progression from static to dynamic figures, without disrupting the centuries-old publishing process.

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Dynamic- vs. Static- Figures

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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics figures are often used to make complex issues more understandable for the reader of a paper. Nowadays, the figures within the document are usually static. However, studies reveal that using dynamic figures is beneficial to the reader’s understanding in 71% of the cases compared¹. The benefits of using dynamic figures include the possibility to represent a multitude of information, better display the rate of change of data², show multistage processes³ and to depict spatial arrangements of three dimensional objects and structures⁴.

Dynamic- vs. Static- Figures