# 2 Exact Same Documents Being Ranked Differently

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-exact-same-documents-being-ranked-differently/19822>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 16, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-exact-same-documents-being-ranked-differently/19822 "2014-09-16T18:40:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Randy\_Jensen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randy_jensen/32/1279_2.png) [@Randy\_Jensen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Randy_Jensen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-exact-same-documents-being-ranked-differently/19822/1 "2014-09-16T18:40:41Z")

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I'm trying to track down an issue where 2 simple documents I'm testing are  
being ranked quite a bit differently.

For testing purposes, I'm only searching against one field, "keywords". The  
only word in that field for both documents is "jefferson". However, when I  
search for the word "jefferson", one has a score of "0.30685282" and the  
other is "1.4054651". I would expect the documents to have the same score  
and can't figure out why they're different.

Here's my query: [https://gist.github.com/randyjensen/49ee07abd48878b06600](https://gist.github.com/randyjensen/49ee07abd48878b06600)

I've disabled norms in my mappings and have also checked the explain object  
that's returned with the query, but everything seems to be the same.

Here's a gist of the return  
object: [https://gist.github.com/randyjensen/c5e9d40448a7b86fb3c9](https://gist.github.com/randyjensen/c5e9d40448a7b86fb3c9)

Is my query wrong somehow?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-exact-same-documents-being-ranked-differently/19822/2 "2017-07-06T01:01:51Z")

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