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ASLIB Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: VOLUME 1. Design, Part 1. Text
Documents and Questions
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
Jack Mills
Michael Keen
Cranfield
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Origin of documents
Submitted Accepted Rejected % accepted
to the authors as as as
for assessment relevant non-relevant relevant
I. Cited in authors' papers
2. Additional documents
selected by students
3. Additional documents by
bibliographic coupling
4. Complete total
1972 (7.1) 1250 (4.5) 722 (2.6) 63.4%
917 (3.3) 592 (3.1) 325 (1.2) 64.6%
198 (0.7) 119 (0.4) 79 (0.3) 60.1%
3087 (11.1) 1961 (7.0) 1126 (4.1) 63.5%
TABLE 3.4
RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS OF DOCUMENTS AS DECIDED BY
AUTHORS IN RELATION TO THEIR SEARCH QUESTIONS
The total for all 279 questions is shown, with the average for each
question in brackets.
Origin of documents
1. Cited in authors' papers
2. Additional documents
selected by students
3. Additional documents by
bibliographic coupling
4. Complete total
Grades of Relevance
Relevant
documents 1 2 3 4
1250 (4.5) 158 (0.6) 348 (1.2) 492 (1.8) 252 (0.9)
592 (2.1) 12 97 (0.4) 344 (1.2) 139 (0.5)
119 (0.4) 1 16 (0.I) 66 (0.2)
36 (0.1)
1961 (7.0) 171 (0.6) 461 (1.7) 902 (3.2) 427 (1.5)
TABLE 3.5 GRADES OF RELEVANCE AS DECIDED BY THE AUTHORS
The total for all 279 questions is shown, with the average for each
question in brackets. It will be noted that this table represents a
breakdown of the figures as given in the second column of Table 3.4.