Tucker, Ryan W.; Bundy, Bradley C. (Brigham Young University)
Faculty Advisor: Bundy, Bradley (Engineering, Chemical Engineering)
Peer-reviewed journal articles publications and their citation rate is the primary measure of research productivity and impact. Many measure of this impact have been developed and this has motivated many researchers to advertise and market their work. However, there are challenges with this system in that much of the scientific literature is not openly available and there are often high fees associated with making an article open access. Here I discuss this challenge and how engineering researchers are working to better make their research more available to the community.