Are these official requirements?

No. Always verify current author guidelines for the selected publisher or conference.

Research tools / Figure validation

Journal figure checker

Upload a figure, select your venue, and see the exact pixel width you need. No uploads, no account, no guesswork.

Runs in your browser

01 — Your figure

Upload artwork

Private · On-device

Drag your figure here

or choose a file from your device

PNG, JPEG, TIFF · One figure at a time

02 — Submission settings

Journal or conference

Artwork type

PhotographMicroscopy, photosCombinationPhotos + text/linesLine artPlots, diagrams

Target layout

Single column89 mmDouble column183 mm

03 — Assessment

Export requirements

Minimum width for single column · photograph

1,051 px

Print width

89 mm

Minimum density

300 DPI

Your results will appear here

Add a figure to compare its dimensions and file size with this venue’s thresholds. You can change the settings anytime.

Reference guidance, not an official acceptance decision. Confirm format, color space and production instructions with your venue.

Venue spec table

Column widths in millimetres. Min DPI shown for photographs. Confirm against the current author PDF before you ship camera-ready.

Venue	Single	Double	Photo DPI	Min px (single)	Max MB
Nature	89 mm	183 mm	300	1051	30
Nature Communications	88 mm	180 mm	300	1039	30
Science Advances	55 mm	184 mm	300	650	25
Science	55 mm	184 mm	300	650	25
Cell	85 mm	174 mm	300	1004	20
PNAS	87 mm	178 mm	300	1028	10
eLife	85 mm	174 mm	300	1004	25
PLOS ONE	83 mm	190 mm	300	980	10
Nucleic Acids Research	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
Bioinformatics	85 mm	177 mm	300	1004	20
JAMA	82 mm	174 mm	350	1130	20
NEJM	84 mm	174 mm	300	992	15
The Lancet	85 mm	174 mm	300	1004	20
BMJ	84 mm	174 mm	300	992	15
IEEE Transactions	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	20
IEEE Access	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	25
IEEE TPAMI	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	20
Physical Review Letters	86 mm	178 mm	300	1016	15
JACS	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
Angewandte Chemie	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
ACS Nano	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
JMLR	83 mm	170 mm	300	980	20
TMLR	83 mm	170 mm	300	980	25
NeurIPS	83 mm	174 mm	300	980	20
ICML	83 mm	174 mm	300	980	20
ICLR	83 mm	174 mm	300	980	20
CVPR	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	20
ICCV	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	20
ECCV	88.9 mm	181.9 mm	300	1050	20
ACL	79 mm	165 mm	300	933	15
EMNLP	79 mm	165 mm	300	933	15
AAAI	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
ACM CHI	89 mm	178 mm	300	1051	20
KDD	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
SIGGRAPH	89 mm	183 mm	300	1051	30
Springer LNCS	78 mm	122 mm	300	921	15
arXiv (recommended)	85 mm	180 mm	150	502	50
Nature Methods	89 mm	183 mm	300	1051	30
Nature Medicine	89 mm	183 mm	300	1051	30
Physical Review X	86 mm	178 mm	300	1016	20
USENIX	85 mm	178 mm	300	1004	20
COLM	83 mm	174 mm	300	980	20
ACM Computing Surveys	89 mm	183 mm	300	1051	25

43 of 43 venues. Groups: Life & multidisciplinary · Medical · Physics & chemistry · IEEE & ACM journals · CS journals · CS conferences · Preprint.

Where this helps

Figure production rejects are boring and late. These are the situations labs actually hit.

Camera-ready

After acceptance, Nature/IEEE/CVPR production will bounce low-DPI line art. Check before you zip the source.

First submission

Desk-reject quality bar: unreadable axis labels at column width. Know the px target before you plot.

Lab templates

One matplotlib rcParams / R ggsave size for the lab’s usual venue. The cheat sheet gives the pixel numbers.

Switching venues

NeurIPS column ≠ Nature double-page. Re-check the same PNG against the new journal without re-exporting first.

Bibby Figures / BioRender-style panels

AI or composite figures often ship at 72 DPI. Run them here before \includegraphics.

Thesis & arXiv

arXiv is lenient; your journal is not. Use arXiv preset for the preprint, then the real venue for the journal PDF.

How to export so the check passes

Screenshots of a 13-inch laptop are 72–144 DPI. Journals will not resample them into a sharp column. Set physical size first, then DPI.

Python (matplotlib)

fig.set_size_inches(3.5, 2.6)  # ~89 mm single column
fig.savefig("fig1.png", dpi=300, bbox_inches="tight")
# graphs: dpi=600 and content type = Line art

R (ggplot2)

ggsave("fig1.tiff", width = 89, height = 70, units = "mm", dpi = 300, compression = "lzw")

Illustrator / Inkscape

Artboard = journal column width (mm).
Export TIFF or PNG; embed 300–1000 PPI.
Keep type ≥ 6–8 pt after shrink.

PowerPoint / Keynote

Do not screenshot the slide.
File → Export → PNG/TIFF at 2–3× or 300 DPI.
Better: redraw plots in Python/R and overlay labels.

Need the figure drawn from the paper itself? Academic figures (Bibby Figures) · Insert images in LaTeX

Common production fails

JPEG line graphs (blocky axes). Use TIFF/PNG/PDF.
No DPI tag → we assume 72. Re-export with pHYs / Photoshop PPI.
800 px wide “high-res” panel that is 3 inches at 72 DPI.
Hairline rules and 6 pt type that vanish at 89 mm.
File over the venue cap (PNAS 10 MB, many Nature 30 MB).
RGB photo sent to a CMYK-strict print workflow without a check.

Frequently asked questions

What does the checker inspect?

It reads the image file locally to inspect pixel dimensions, embedded resolution metadata, file format, colour information and file size. Your figure is not uploaded by this page.

What if my file has no DPI metadata?

Missing DPI is not the same as low resolution. Check whether your pixel dimensions are sufficient for the intended physical width. You may need to set the output size or resolution metadata when exporting.

Which figure type should I select?

Choose photograph for microscopy and continuous-tone images, line art for charts and diagrams, or combination for mixed panels. Different artwork types can have different resolution requirements.

Can I check PDF, EPS or SVG figures?

This checker handles PNG, JPEG and TIFF raster files. For vector artwork, consult the venue's vector-art requirements rather than interpreting an exported preview as the original.

Are these the journal's official requirements?

No. These are practical reference values, not a substitute for the current publisher or conference artwork instructions. Verify your target venue before final submission.

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