General Search in SciSearch Plus
Sorting Results

SciSearch at LANL: http://search.lanl.gov/

Sorting results by relevance rank

The default sort is relevance rank

Records containing the largest number of occurrences of your search terms are placed near the top of the list of records retrieved.

Records in which your search terms appear in the title are ranked higher than records in which search terms are in the abstract.

Scores show the potential relevance of each record.

Sorting by date

To sort by date, select Date next to Sort results by.

Most recent records appear at the top of the list of results.

Sorting by source

To sort by source, select Source next to Sort results by.

Records are in alphabetical order by journal title.

Sorting by source is useful when retrieving articles from journals in the library if journals are shelved alphabetically by title.

Sorting by first author

To sort by author, select Author next to Sort results by.

Records are in alphabetical order by first author.

Sorting by title

To sort by article title, select Title next to Sort results by.

Records are in alphabetical order by article title.

Sorting by times cited

To sort by number of times cited, select Times cited next to Sort results by.

Records for items cited the largest number of times in journals indexed in SciSearch appear at the top of the list of records retrieved.

• Sorting by the number of times cited tends to favor older articles; the newest articles have not yet been cited.
• Articles in subjects that are less well indexed in SciSearch (for example, articles in earth sciences and engineering) may have been cited in literature not indexed in SciSearch.
• Keep in mind that SciSearch does not index government documents, technical reports, or other non-journal literature.

In the list of results, click on a title to see the full record, which includes the number of times the item has been cited.

More information

On the General Search page, select Tips/FAQs.

Related Topics

• General search introduction
• Author searching
• Title/subject/abstract searching
• Boolean searching and truncation
• Journal searching
• Institution searching
• Limiting by date and number of citations to retrieve
• Displaying, marking, and printing citations
• Search history
• LinkSeeker and links to full text
• Table of contents

Michael Newman
Falconer Biology Library
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-5021
mnewman@stanford.edu

Last modified: April, 2003