How to express ticks in scientific form?

Question

I want to express the ticks in scientific form. I tried two ways as following

ListLogPlot[Table[{x, 10^x}, {x, -1, 1}], Ticks -> {Automatic, {10^-1, 10^0, 10^1}}]

ListLogPlot[Table[{x, 10^x}, {x, -1, 1}],  
                          Ticks -> {Automatic, ScientificForm[{10^-1, 10^0, 10^1}]}]

but they just could not work as you can see; the latter even is wrong.

Why & how?

Edit by @belisarius

Scientific Notation is usually understood as ${1.\times 10^{-2}}$, however the OP wants just ${10^{-2}}$. Solutions for both cases can be found in the answers below.

Answer 1

Here's one possibility. In this case, Superscript provides the needed format of exponents but Table helps in formatting Ticks over sets of values.

ListLogPlot[Table[PartitionsQ[n], {n, 50}], 
Ticks -> {Automatic, Table[{10^k, Superscript[10, k]}, {k, -2, 5}]},
PlotRange -> {Automatic, {1/1000, 10^5}}]

Answer 2

You need the second form for the ticks {position, label}.

As in

ListLogPlot[#, Ticks -> {Automatic, {#, ScientificForm@#} & /@ #}] &@Array[10.^# &, 10]

Answer 3

I would suggest using the CustomTicks package. After loading the package, you do:

ListPlot[Table[{x, Log10[10^x]}, {x, -1, 1, .1}], Ticks -> {Automatic, LogTicks}]

You can also specify to use CustomTicks's linear ticks:

ListPlot[Table[{x,Log10[10^x]},{x,-1,1,.1}],Ticks->{LinTicks,LogTicks}]

which gives a slightly different result:

There are many options in this package to modify the ticks style, spacing, etc. See the complete user's guide.