CRANV2 Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2 contents contents Cyril Cleverdon Michael Keen Cranfield An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation. Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction PAGE 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 References Test Environment Methods for presentation of results Main test results Simulated ranking and document output cut -off Supplementary tests and results Citation indexing and bibliographic coupling Conclusions 31 78 192 221 243 252 264 Appendix 3A Tables of generality number, and fallout, recall and precision ratios 265 Appendix 4A Appendix 5A Set of individual test results Formula for document ranking based on probability considerations, by G.H. Stearman 288 296 299 INDEX