| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age | Portal | 2003 | 379 |
| 2 | Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines | Portal | 2004 | 295 |
| 3 | Trends in the Usage of ISI Bibliometric Data: Uses, Abuses, and Implications | Portal | 2005 | 160 |
| 4 | Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty | Portal | 2011 | 148 |
| 5 | What Students Want: Generation Y and the Changing Function of the Academic Library | Portal | 2005 | 138 |
| 6 | Library Use and Undergraduate Student Outcomes: New Evidence for Students’ Retention and Academic Success | Portal | 2013 | 130 |
| 7 | Creating a Culture of Assessment: A Catalyst for Organizational Change | Portal | 2004 | 128 |
| 8 | Chucking the Checklist: A Contextual Approach to Teaching Undergraduates Web-Site Evaluation | Portal | 2004 | 125 |
| 9 | The Depth and Breadth of Google Scholar: An Empirical Study | Portal | 2006 | 123 |
| 10 | Electronic Book Usage: A Survey at the University of Denver | Portal | 2006 | 113 |
| 11 | Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move Toward Critical Information Literacy | Portal | 2005 | 110 |
| 12 | Dangers and Opportunities: A Conceptual Map of Information Literacy Assessment Approaches | Portal | 2008 | 104 |
| 13 | “Soft Skills”: A Phrase in Search of Meaning | Portal | 2016 | 99 |
| 14 | Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age | Portal | 2003 | 97 |
| 15 | Academic Libraries, Facebook and MySpace, and Student Outreach: A Survey of Student Opinion | Portal | 2009 | 87 |
| 16 | Visual Literacy Standards in Higher Education: New Opportunities for Libraries and Student Learning | Portal | 2013 | 87 |
| 17 | Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return | Portal | 2004 | 81 |
| 18 | The Information Commons: The Academic Library Of The Future | Portal | 2003 | 77 |
| 19 | Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change | Portal | 2009 | 64 |
| 20 | Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research | Portal | 2003 | 63 |
| 21 | Learning Outcomes, Portfolios, and Rubrics, Oh My! Authentic Assessment of an Information Literacy Program | Portal | 2008 | 62 |
| 22 | A Radical Step: Implementing A Critical Information Literacy Model | Portal | 2004 | 61 |
| 23 | The Electronic Academic Library: Undergraduate Research Behavior in a Library Without Books | Portal | 2006 | 61 |
| 24 | Diversity, Social Justice, and the Future of Libraries | Portal | 2014 | 61 |
| 25 | A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies | Portal | 2012 | 60 |
| 26 | Evaluating the Quality of a Chat Service | Portal | 2005 | 59 |
| 27 | Teaching at the Desk: Toward a Reference Pedagogy | Portal | 2002 | 57 |
| 28 | Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision | Portal | 2009 | 57 |
| 29 | The What and Who of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking in Higher Education | Portal | 2007 | 56 |
| 30 | E-books in Academic Libraries: Challenges for Acquisition and Collection Management | Portal | 2013 | 56 |
| 31 | Master's and Doctoral Thesis Citations: Analysis and Trends of a Longitudinal Study | Portal | 2003 | 55 |
| 32 | Transformational Leadership: Peer Mentoring as a Values-Based Learning Process | Portal | 2005 | 52 |
| 33 | Student Bibliographies Improve When Professors Provide Enforceable Guidelines for Citations | Portal | 2004 | 50 |
| 34 | Measuring Library Space Use and Preferences: Charting a Path Toward Increased Engagement | Portal | 2008 | 50 |
| 35 | Reliability and Structure of LibQUAL+ Scores: Measuring Perceived Library Service Quality | Portal | 2002 | 49 |
| 36 | From Student to Scholar: The Academic Library and Social Sciences PhD Students’ Transformation | Portal | 2009 | 49 |
| 37 | From Standards to Frameworks for IL: How the ACRL Framework Addresses Critiques of the Standards | Portal | 2015 | 49 |
| 38 | The Lasting Impact of a Library Credit Course | Portal | 2006 | 48 |
| 39 | Doctoral Students' Engagement with Information: An American-Australian Perspective | Portal | 2007 | 48 |
| 40 | Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy | Portal | 2011 | 47 |
| 41 | The Materiality of Digital Collections: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives | Portal | 2006 | 46 |
| 42 | Collection Directions: The Evolution of Library Collections and Collecting | Portal | 2014 | 45 |
| 43 | Transformational and Transactional Leadership: An Exploration of Gender, Experience, and Institution Type | Portal | 2015 | 42 |
| 44 | Are Researchers Ready For The Electronic-Only Journal Collection?: Results of a Survey at the University of Maryland | Portal | 2002 | 41 |
| 45 | Improving Library Service Quality to Graduate Students: LibQual+ TM Survey Results in a Practical Setting | Portal | 2006 | 41 |
| 46 | Data Curation: A Study of Researcher Practices and Needs | Portal | 2014 | 41 |
| 47 | Score Norms for Improving Library Service Quality: A LibQUAL+ Study | Portal | 2002 | 39 |
| 48 | Reinventing the Library How Repositories Are Causing Librarians to Rethink Their Professional Roles | Portal | 2007 | 39 |
| 49 | Comparative Recall and Precision of Simple and Expert Searches in Google Scholar and Eight Other Databases | Portal | 2011 | 39 |
| 50 | Troublesome Concepts and Information Literacy: Investigating Threshold Concepts for IL Instruction | Portal | 2012 | 39 |
