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January 2008

Matthew Wagner
Librarian Relations Consultant

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Using Relevance Scores to Find Documents
(April 22, 2005)

Search using relevance scores to find documents with various levels of reference to your terms. For example:

To retrieve all references to a topic (even very weak ones), search:
terms(index terms)

To retrieve documents that discuss a topic, search:
terms(index term pre/2 8*% or 9*%)

To retrieve only very strong discussion of a topic, search:
terms(index term pre/2 9*%)

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