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This is quite a general question, perhaps somewhat opinion-based.
In most papers people use boxplots to visualize a certain distribution, yet violinplots are able to give more information. Violinplots are made by performing a kernel density estimation on your distribution.
Are there objective arguments to use one over the other? Or maybe there are specific situations in which one would prefer one over the other?
An example of both can be found here: 
I am a big fan of violin-plots. Although both aim for the same goal (visualizing distributions and key figures for that), box-plots have their limitations. Please have a look into following gif [1]): Box-plots are not able to capture the change in the raw data, while voilin-plots do so:
[1] taken from https://www.autodesk.com/research/publications/same-stats-different-graphs
Hugely dependent on both user and audience preference (violin plots being more unusual could throw people), so it is mostly up to you.
One main reason to go for a violin plot is to give more detail about the distribution, as box plots just give hard stops at the mean, stddev and 2 stddevs. Therefore if you think there is interesting information contained in the distribution between those points go violin.
The other main reason is they're more eye catching on Kaggle ;)
Well, that is not true that Boxplot only gives hard stops! Violin plots are rather contemporary version of Boxplots I would say, and easy for the eyes to see the distribution of data. Boxplots also can reveal how data is distributed. For example, here you see a Boxplot of a normally distributed data that is symmetrical with the mean and median in the center (top), as well as a non-normal data (bottom). The source is here.
More details of how to interpret a Boxplot in terms of a normal distribution, look here:
Sidenote: Boxplots usually are used for easy and quick outliers detection as well.
Said that I totally agree with jshep that it is the matter of taste of both user and audience, and usually academics lean towards less fancier presentations like Boxplots.
