Dear Chantal, Thanks for your reply, but thats not what I was asking.
Let me explain. The size of the list in AREFS would give me how many records are *referred by* an article and NOT how many records *refer to* an article. Say if an article id - 51463 has been published in 2002 and refers to 10 articles dating from 1990-2002. Then the count of AREFS would be 10 which is static once the journal has been published. However if the same article is being *referred to* by 20 articles published from 2003-2012 then I am talking about this 20 count. This count is dynamic and as we keep adding records to the index, there are more articles that will refer to article 51463 it in their AREFS field in the future. /(Obviously when we are adding article 51463 to the index we have no clue who will be referring to it in the future, so we can have another field in it for this, nor can be update 51463 everytime someone refers to it)/ So today, if I want to know who all are referring to 51463, by actually searching for this id in the AREFS field. The query is as simple as q=AREFS:51463 and it will given the list of articles from 2003 to 2012 and the result count would be 20. So back to the question, say if my search query is q=AT:metal and it gives me 1700 results. How can I sort 1700 results by those that have received maximum number of citations (till date) by others. (i.e., that have maximum number of results if I individually search their ids in the AREFS field). Hope this makes it clear. I feel this is a sort/boost by function query candidate. But I am not able to figure it out. Thanks Ritesh -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Can-this-type-of-sorting-boosting-be-done-by-solr-tp3769315p3769475.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
