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negative impact on ARP downloads (� = –.18, p < .01) <strong>and</strong> diminished overall<br />
downloads <strong>of</strong> an ARP by 76 downloads. Google Scholar citations had the next<br />
highest impact (� = .16, p < .01), resulting in an increase <strong>of</strong> almost 41 downloads<br />
for every citation on Google Scholar. Finally, state government had a big impact<br />
on ARP downloads (� = .14, p < .01). State government related topic contributes<br />
105 downloads to the total downloads for that ARP.<br />
Table 8.<br />
Multivariate Regression Results<br />
Independent Variables B St<strong>and</strong>ard<br />
Error<br />
Beta t sig<br />
(Constant) 494.42 76.25 6.48 .000<br />
Sector—state government 104.71 42.74 .14 2.45 .015<br />
Research purpose—explanation 96.49 57.18 .10 1.69 .093<br />
Research method—survey –5.86 42.48 –.01 –.14 .890<br />
Serial number –.76 .25 –.18 –3.09 .002<br />
Title construction –.38 42.24 –.00 –.01 .993<br />
Award winner –40.68 78.07 –.03 –.52 .603<br />
Bibliography size –1.26 1.04 –.07 –1.21 .226<br />
Wikipedia reference 355.42 83.79 .25 4.24 .000<br />
Google Scholar citations 40.60 14.79 .16 2.75 .006<br />
AltaVista-identified links 4.88 3.41 .08 1.43 .153<br />
R 2<br />
F for change in R 2<br />
.15<br />
5.05*<br />
Note. Dependent variable: ARP downloads as <strong>of</strong> August 18, 2009<br />
N = 290 ARPs; *p < .05.<br />
Sharing Student Research with the World<br />
DISCUSSION<br />
Kraemer <strong>and</strong> Perry (1989, p. 9) asserted that “research should become more<br />
prominent in public administration,” so that public administration exports as<br />
well as imports knowledge from other fields. Internet technologies <strong>and</strong> other<br />
Web-based technologies have enabled a response to their call by facilitating the<br />
importing <strong>and</strong> exporting <strong>of</strong> knowledge related to public administration. The<br />
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