Are figure legends sufficient? Evaluating the contribution of associated text to biomedical figure comprehension.

J Biomed Discov Collab · 2009 · PMC2631451 · PMID 19126221

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We found that for both judges, the differences in comprehension as the amount of associated text increased were highly significant for all four rhetorical units when comparing figure+legend with either figure+legend+title+abstract or figure+full-text (p < 0.05).

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