# Does it make sense to filter out documents with min\_score?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785 "2017-11-30T15:51:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chris-asl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chris-asl)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785/1 "2017-11-30T15:51:17Z")
Hello,
I am trying to optimize the results of some queries in order to get only the relevant documents.
My use case is that for a given query, I am getting 4 matches instead of 3.
The scores of the documents are:
- 0.71508944
- 0.33722776
- 0.13875061
- 0.007067728
Notice that the latest one seems to have a very low score.
My question is, whether it makes sense in this case to use `min_score`.
Follow-up: If so, can the `min_score` value be calculated with a function? (so that it's not a fixed value)
Notes: ElasticSearch version 2.4.1
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785/2 "2017-12-01T08:10:30Z")
`min_score` needs to be a fixed value. Maybe it makes more sense to investigate why the last match is a match at all and if you can refine your query, if you really do not consider it a match?
P.S. you might want to think about upgrading, you are using a soon to be unsupported version
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### Author:  [@chris-asl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chris-asl)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785/3 "2017-12-04T12:32:11Z")
I agree on evaluating why does it considered a match.
It's on the plans to upgrade! Thank you 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-it-make-sense-to-filter-out-documents-with-min-score/109785/4 "2018-01-01T12:32:18Z")
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