At each NASKO since 2009, the papers most highly rated by the conference reviewers have been selected for publication in the official journal of ISKO, Knowledge Organization. From 2009 until 2015, the 4 highest rated papers were chosen for this honor; since 2017, the 2 most highly rated papers have been selected. Following is a list of the best papers from previous NASKO conferences:

2021
*Brian Dobreski, “Re-examining Aristotle's Categories as KOS"
*Tamara Lee, Sarah Dupont, & Julia Bullard, "Comparing the Cataloguing of Indigenous Scholarship: First Steps and Findings”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 48(4), 2021.

2019
*Elliot Hauser & Joseph T. Tennis, “Episemantics: Aboutness as Aroundness”
*Heather Moulaison-Sandy & Andrew Dillon, “Mapping the KO Community”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 46(8), 2019.

2017
*D. Grant Campbell, José Augusto Guimarães, Fabio Assis Pinho, Daniel Martínez-Ávila, & Francisco Arrais Nascimento, “The Terminological Polyhedron in LGBTQ Terminology: Self-Naming”
*Thomas M. Dousa, “E. Wyndham Hulme’s Classification of the Attributes of Books: On an Early Model of a Core Bibliographical Entity”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 44(8), 2017.

2015
*Murtha Baca & Melissa Gill, “Encoding Multilingual Knowledge Systems in the Digital Age: the Getty Vocabularies”
*Rebecca Green, “Indigenous Peoples in the U.S., Sovereign Nations, and the DDC”
*Joseph T. Tennis, “Foundational, First-Order, and Second-Order Classification Theory”
*Yejun Wu & Li Yang, “Construction and Evaluation of an Oil Spill Semantic Relation Taxonomy for Supporting Knowledge Discovery”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 42(4), 2015.

2013
*Melissa Adler & Joseph T. Tennis, “Toward a Taxonomy of Harm in Knowledge Organization Systems”
*Melodie J. Fox & Austin Reece, “The Impossible Decision: Social Tagging and Derrida’s Deconstructed Hospitality”
*Christine Marchese & Richard P. Smiraglia, “Boundary Objects: CWA, an HR Firm, and Emergent Vocabulary”
*Richard P. Smiraglia, “Is FRBR a Domain? Domain Analysis Applied to the Literature of the FRBR Family of Conceptual Models”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 40(4), 2013.

2011
*Melodie J. Fox, “Prototype Theory: An Alternative Concept Theory for Categorizing Sex and Gender?”
*Rebecca Green, “See-also Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification”
*Michèle Hudon, “Teaching Classification in the 21st Century”
*M. Cristina Patuelli, “Mapping People-Centered Properties for Linked Open Data"

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 38(4), 2011.

2009
*D. Grant Campbell, “Tensions between Language and Discourse in North American Knowledge Organization”
*Thomas M. Dousa, “Classical Pragmatism and its Varieties: On a Pluriform Metatheoretical Perspective for Knowledge Organization”
*David Pimentel, “Examining the KO Roots of Taylor’s Value-Added Model”
*Olha Buchel & Linda J. Hill, “Treatment of Georeferencing in Knowledge Organization Systems: North America Contributions to Integrated Georeferencing”

Published in: Knowledge Organization, 37(1), 2010.