| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Modeling the Information Seeking of Professionals: A General Model Derived from Research on Engineers, Health Care Professionals, and Lawyers | Library Quarterly | 1996 | 453 |
| 2 | Modeling the Information-Seeking Patterns of Academic Researchers: A Grounded Theory Approach | Library Quarterly | 1993 | 291 |
| 3 | Information Behavior and Information Practice: Reviewing the “Umbrella Concepts” of Information‐Seeking Studies | Library Quarterly | 2007 | 264 |
| 4 | Undiscovered Public Knowledge | Library Quarterly | 1986 | 261 |
| 5 | Information Literacy as a Sociotechnical Practice | Library Quarterly | 2005 | 221 |
| 6 | The Nature of Relevance in Information Retrieval: An Empirical Study | Library Quarterly | 1993 | 139 |
| 7 | Posttruth, Truthiness, and Alternative Facts: Information Behavior and Critical Information Consumption for a New Age | Library Quarterly | 2017 | 139 |
| 8 | What Children Can Teach Us: Developing Digital Libraries for Children with Children | Library Quarterly | 2005 | 129 |
| 9 | Accidentally Found on Purpose: Information-Seeking Behavior of Historians in Archives | Library Quarterly | 2002 | 128 |
| 10 | An Optimal Foraging Approach to Information Seeking and Use | Library Quarterly | 1994 | 122 |
| 11 | Methodological Issues and Practices in Qualitative Research | Library Quarterly | 1993 | 118 |
| 12 | Tunnel Vision and Blind Spots: What the past Tells Us about the Present; Reflections on the Twentieth-Century History of American Librarianship | Library Quarterly | 1999 | 111 |
| 13 | Antecedents of Library Anxiety | Library Quarterly | 1997 | 103 |
| 14 | Information Retrieval as a Trial-And-Error Process | Library Quarterly | 1977 | 99 |
| 15 | The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation | Library Quarterly | 2002 | 99 |
| 16 | Cultural Competence: A Conceptual Framework for Library and Information Science Professionals | Library Quarterly | 2009 | 98 |
| 17 | Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction | Library Quarterly | 2013 | 97 |
| 18 | The Crisis in Cataloging | Library Quarterly | 1941 | 93 |
| 19 | Rethinking Information Literacy | Library Quarterly | 2002 | 93 |
| 20 | Learning to Put Out the Red Stuff: Becoming Information Literate through Discursive Practice | Library Quarterly | 2007 | 93 |
| 21 | The Information-Seeking Behavior of Artists: Exploratory Interviews | Library Quarterly | 1996 | 92 |
| 22 | The Public Place of Central Libraries: Findings from Toronto and Vancouver | Library Quarterly | 2002 | 90 |
| 23 | An Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science | Library Quarterly | 1995 | 88 |
| 24 | An Analysis of Search Terminology Used by Humanities Scholars: The Getty Online Searching Project Report Number 1 | Library Quarterly | 1993 | 84 |
| 25 | The Collection and Use of Information by Some American Historians: A Study of Motives and Methods | Library Quarterly | 1991 | 83 |
| 26 | Justifying Cognitive Authority Decisions: Discursive Strategies of Information Seekers | Library Quarterly | 2003 | 81 |
| 27 | Regulations Relating to the Book Trade in London from 1357 to 1586 | Library Quarterly | 1956 | 80 |
| 28 | Information Literacy: A Contradictory Coupling | Library Quarterly | 2003 | 80 |
| 29 | Preservation in the Age of Google: Digitization, Digital Preservation, and Dilemmas | Library Quarterly | 2010 | 79 |
| 30 | The Use of Citations in Literary Research: A Preliminary Classification of Citation Functions | Library Quarterly | 1979 | 78 |
| 31 | A Qualitative Study of Citing Behavior: Contributions, Criteria, and Metalevel Documentation Concerns | Library Quarterly | 1997 | 78 |
| 32 | Making Sense of an Information World: The Everyday‐Life Information Behavior of Preteens | Library Quarterly | 2009 | 77 |
| 33 | The Librarian: From Occupation to Profession? | Library Quarterly | 1961 | 76 |
| 34 | “The Eyes of the Power Company”: Workplace Information Practices of a Vault Inspector | Library Quarterly | 2007 | 75 |
| 35 | A Statistical Procedure for Evaluating the Importance of Scientific Papers | Library Quarterly | 1977 | 74 |
| 36 | Lay Information Provision in Community Settings: How Community Health Nurses Disseminate Human Services Information to the Elderly | Library Quarterly | 2000 | 74 |
| 37 | Foundations of a Theory of Bibliography | Library Quarterly | 1952 | 73 |
| 38 | Subjective versus Objective Relevance in Bibliographic Retrieval Systems | Library Quarterly | 1986 | 73 |
| 39 | The Impacts of Free Public Internet Access on Public Library Patrons and Communities | Library Quarterly | 2008 | 70 |
| 40 | Topic Knowledge and Online Catalog Search Formulation | Library Quarterly | 1991 | 69 |
| 41 | Positivism, Foucault, and the Fantasia of the Library: Conceptions of Knowledge and the Modern Library Experience | Library Quarterly | 1992 | 68 |
| 42 | Citation Analysis for Collection Development: A Comparative Study of Eight Humanities Fields | Library Quarterly | 2005 | 67 |
| 43 | Post-Positivist Research: Two Examples of Methodological Pluralism | Library Quarterly | 1993 | 66 |
| 44 | Unequal Legacies: Race and Multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum | Library Quarterly | 2006 | 65 |
| 45 | What’s Old Is New Again: The Reconvergence of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Digital Age | Library Quarterly | 2010 | 64 |
| 46 | Making, Makers, and Makerspaces: A Discourse Analysis of Professional Journal Articles and Blog Posts about Makerspaces in Public Libraries | Library Quarterly | 2016 | 64 |
| 47 | Characteristics of References in Selected Scholarly English Literary Journals | Library Quarterly | 1980 | 61 |
| 48 | The Use and Misuse of Anthropological Methods in Library and Information Science Research | Library Quarterly | 1995 | 61 |
| 49 | The American Public Library as a Social Institution | Library Quarterly | 1937 | 60 |
| 50 | Interpersonal and Affective Communication in Synchronous Online Discourse | Library Quarterly | 2007 | 60 |
