# Skip Scoring more than once if search term appears multiple time in Document

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-scoring-more-than-once-if-search-term-appears-multiple-time-in-document/245399>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-scoring-more-than-once-if-search-term-appears-multiple-time-in-document/245399 "2020-08-18T11:06:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![AmitaS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amitas/32/47708_2.png) [@AmitaS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AmitaS)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-scoring-more-than-once-if-search-term-appears-multiple-time-in-document/245399/1 "2020-08-18T11:06:14Z")

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HI  
Is it possible not to increase score if the search term appears in document more than once?  
to implement similar to this ,which is implemented on db

```auto

            int rank = 100;
            var isMatched = false;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(field1) && field1.Contains(keyword))
            {
                rank = 1;
                isMatched = true;
            }
            else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(field2) && field2.Contains(keyword))
            {
                rank = 10;
                isMatched = true;
            }

```

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**Author:** ![dominique.bejean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dominique.bejean](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dominique.bejean)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-scoring-more-than-once-if-search-term-appears-multiple-time-in-document/245399/2 "2020-08-18T21:23:02Z")

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Hi,

You can copy the text data fields used for your search with copy\_to and keep only one occurrence of each token by using the unique token filter

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-unique-tokenfilter.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-unique-tokenfilter.html)

Phrase search won’t work on these fields.

Dominique

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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:** [September 15, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-scoring-more-than-once-if-search-term-appears-multiple-time-in-document/245399/3 "2020-09-15T21:23:09Z")

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