Here is a list of journals that publish short papers with no more than 1 or 2 figures.
General science journals
PNAS
Brief
reports
"Brief
Reports describe observations of immediate impact that may hold potential to
initiate new avenues of research, provide compelling new data on controversies
of broad interest and long-standing questions, or present a concise conceptual
advance. Brief Reports are limited to 15,000 characters and typically include no more than 2 graphical elements.
Please note the character count includes manuscript text, as well as the title
page, abstract, references, figure legends, graphical elements (e.g., figures and
tables), and spaces. Graphical elements are estimated at 2,000 characters each
at initial submission. Supporting information is limited to essential
supporting datasets and videos (no additional methods, tables, or figures).
Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to cite protocols. Brief Reports
receive an accelerated review and production process of ~3 months and are open
access. All Brief Reports follow the Direct Submission mode of review."
Life Science Journals
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Brief Communications
"Brief
Communications are short reports of software tools and databases that have the
potential of very significant and immediate impact on the scientific community.
Manuscripts need to present significant updates of software tools and databases
that have already proven to be critical enabling technologies for molecular
evolutionary studies. MBE also considers contributions describing new
resources, but they must describe new software tools or databases with a clear
potential to become broadly used in evolutionary analysis immediately.
Format:
Brief Communications begin with an abstract no more than 100 words, followed by
the main text of no more than 750 words
and one figure or table. Longer Brief Communications can be considered with
proper justification and may be submitted as Letters and Articles. No
subsections are allowed and the Materials and Methods section, if necessary,
should be included in the Supplementary Materials. (See General Author
Guidelines for all other information on manuscript preparation.)"
Nature ecology
Brief Communication
"A Brief
Communication reports a concise study of high quality and broad interest. Brief
Communications begin with a brief unreferenced abstract (3 sentences, no more
than 100 words), which will appear on abstracting services. The main text is
typically 1,000-1,500 words, excluding abstract, references and figure legends,
and contains no headings. Brief Communications normally have no more than 2 display items, although
this may be flexible at the discretion of the editor, provided the page limit
is observed.
Brief
Communications include received/accepted dates and may be accompanied by
supplementary information. Brief Communications are peer reviewed."
Nature Genetics
Brief Communication
"A Brief
Communication reports a concise study of high quality and broad interest. This
format may not exceed 3 printed pages. Brief Communications begin with a brief
unreferenced abstract (3 sentences, no more than 70 words), which will appear
on Medline. The main text is typically 1,000-1,500 words, including abstract,
references and figure legends, and contains no headings. Brief Communications
normally have no more than 2 display
items, although this may be flexible at the discretion of the editor,
provided the page limit is observed. Brief Communications include an online
Methods section. As a guideline, Brief Communication allow up to 20 references.
Article titles are omitted from the reference list.
Brief
Communications include received/accepted dates. They may be accompanied by
supplementary information. Brief Communications are peer reviewed."
Blood
Brief Reports
http://www.bloodjournal.org/page/authors/author-guide/article-types?sso-checked=true
"Short manuscripts definitively documenting either experimental results or informative clinical observations will be considered for publication in this category. Single-case reports or case series cannot be accommodated unless they elucidate very novel and important disease biology or approaches to therapy. Brief Reports are not intended to allow publication of incomplete or preliminary findings. The review process is equally rigorous as for Regular Articles and the acceptance rate is lower. Brief Reports may not exceed 1,200 words of text -counting only the Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Abstracts must not exceed 200 words and should be a single paragraph with no subheadings. Only 2 figures/tables and 25 references may be included."
Protein Science
For the Record
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1469896x/homepage/forauthors.html#published
"For the Record articles are intended to enable the publication of an interesting and important observation that should be in the literature. Articles reporting “one experiment” that are clearly part of a larger investigation are not appropriate. Similarly, success with a procedure that is not guaranteed to produce results (e.g., crystallization of a protein) is not appropriate unless the authors have employed novel approaches that will be applicable to other systems and thus of interest to a broader audience. The information must stand on its own merits. Manuscripts submitted to “For the Record” should contain a short abstract and keywords, and introduction and discussion sections (separate or combined) and should not exceed 2,500 words in length. A single illustration conveying essential information, such as a protein sequence, is encouraged."
microPublication Biology
https://www.micropublication.org/about/
"microPublication is a new entrant to the emerging genre of rapidly-published research communications. Such journals aim to transform science publication by publishing single, validated results that include novel findings, negative and/or reproduced results, and results that are perceived to lack high impact. Each article of a microPublication journal is peer-reviewed, assigned a DOI, and published online as HTML and PDF. However, we differ from other journals in this space such as Science Matters and BMC Research Notes, in the Biological Sciences for example, in one fundamental way: research results contained in the article are curated and, upon publication, deposited to and integrated in community-directed authoritative databases, e.g., WormBase. As such, microPublication journals short circuit the publication-to-database process, placing new findings directly into information discovery spaces. Seamlessly and behind the scenes, microPublication turns the scientific publishing process into a curatorial one, too."
Science Matters (Matters, Matters Select)
Only single, robustly validated observations are considered for publication at Matters. This means that the authors communicate only one finding at a time (A does this; A leads to B; A interacts with B; Perturbation of A has an effect on B, etc.). Once your manuscript is accepted, you can then come back and extend the continuing observations in real-time. If the author/s are trying to submit a story with multiple findings and results, the manuscript will be returned to the authors asking to submit only validated single observations.
BMC Research Notes
https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript/research-note
Research note is the main article type of BMC Research Notes and is suitable for
- Extensions or updates to previously published research
- The reporting of additional controls and confirmatory results
- Short descriptions of research projects that did not provide publishable results but represent valuable information regarding protocol and data collection
- Additions to established (software) tools and experimental or computational methods, e.g. new functionality of user interface, improvements in performance or the release on a new platform
- Description of a biomedical dataset or database
- Null results and orphan data
- Research proposals
- Data management plans
Physics Journals
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Short Notes
https://journals.jps.jp/page/jpsj/authors/sub-guide#2
"Contents Brief reports on recent breakthroughs
Length Strictly limited to two printed pages (for whole manuscript)
Abstract Less than 70 words (starting with those published in Vol. 84 No. 1, January issue of 2015 )"
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