# Application of document-level boost and explain

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/application-of-document-level-boost-and-explain/8711>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/application-of-document-level-boost-and-explain/8711 "2012-08-10T20:40:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/application-of-document-level-boost-and-explain/8711/1 "2012-08-10T20:40:18Z")

</div>

The score returned from ElasticSearch matches the score provided in  
"explain". At what point is the document-level boost applied? Biggest  
difference with a large document-level boost that I can spot is  
fieldNorm.

Cheers,

Ivan

--

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/application-of-document-level-boost-and-explain/8711/2 "2017-07-06T03:16:46Z")

</div>