Results lists can be sorted in both descending and ascending order. Choose the desired sort order on the search results page using the dropdown menu at the top of the page, below the search box.

Author Count

This option sorts based on a record’s number of authors.

Citation Count

This option sorts based on a paper’s number of citations.

Date

This option sorts based on a paper’s publication date (month and year).

Entry Date

This option sorts based on a paper’s entry date in the SciX database.

Read Count

This option is a measure of recent popularity. It sorts on the 90-day read count of a paper: the number of times a paper has been accessed in SciX or on arXiv in the last 90 days.

Relevancy

This option is currently a combination of two factors: the first is the raw search score, or how well the results match the search terms. For unfielded searches, or those that don’t use search tags, commonly searched fields such as author and publication year are more heavily weighted in determining the score. The second factor is a boost factor for more highly read and cited papers. This boost factor is designed to more highly rank papers that are relevant and popular now and is calculated via an age-normalized combination of reads and citation.