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Patricia Shields, N<strong>and</strong>hini Rangarajan, <strong>and</strong> Lewis Stewart<br />

4 Pi Alpha Alpha winners include Baum (1997), Perez (2000), Garza (2001), Wilson (2001), <strong>and</strong><br />

Loera (2003). In 2004, Pi Alpha Alpha produced a commemorative monograph with the best<br />

student papers <strong>of</strong> 2004 included. Texas State students Loera (2003) <strong>and</strong> Jones (2004) wrote two<br />

<strong>of</strong> the four master’s papers in the monograph. In addition to the Pi Alpha Alpha awards, Texas<br />

State students have won awards from the CenTex Chapter <strong>of</strong> the American Society for <strong>Public</strong><br />

Administration. Among the CenTex Winners, Carey Welebob (1998) won a South Eastern<br />

Conference on <strong>Public</strong> Administration student research award, <strong>and</strong> Chance Sparks (2008) received<br />

an award from a regional planning association. For a complete list <strong>of</strong> the CenTex award winners,<br />

see http://uweb.txstate.edu/~ps07/documents/awards.pdf.<br />

5 See http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutions.html to find the data for these institutions.<br />

Data related to Texas State University ARP downloads were obtained directly from a secure<br />

Berkeley Electronic Press website with counts for withdrawn ARPs set to zero.<br />

6 The name bepress, all in lowercase, is a registered trademark <strong>of</strong> the Berkeley Electronic Press.<br />

7 We draw these numbers from an extensive database <strong>of</strong> current students <strong>and</strong> alumni maintained by<br />

the Texas State University MPA program.<br />

8 We have chosen to highlight only one aspect <strong>of</strong> the varied Google Scholar search mechanisms that<br />

we felt was most important to this study. As Dreyfus (2009) points out, Google uses a number<br />

<strong>of</strong> factors to determine the results that will be most appropriate for a user’s query. Google <strong>and</strong> by<br />

extension Google Scholar use the importance accorded to each search page by previous users as a<br />

way to determine the importance <strong>and</strong> relevance <strong>of</strong> a piece <strong>of</strong> work to a search request. Simply put,<br />

Google Scholar does not merely spit out results that it thinks are most important to a user’s query.<br />

Instead, it takes into account the input <strong>of</strong> previous users It also tries to make its search efforts as<br />

close to that <strong>of</strong> a human search effort as possible.<br />

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