By default, search results are sorted according year in descending order listing 15 results per page. In Basic and Advanced Search, you have the option to modify the results format.
1. Select Basic or Advanced under Search on the navigation menu. If you are navigating from a Search Results page, use your browser’s Back button.
2. Enter or modify your search query as needed.
3. Go to Organize search results in the Search Options box.
4. For Sort by, select one of the following options:
· Relevance sorts records based on relevance score (a number between 0 and 1.0) assigned to each record by IEEE Xplore®. The higher the score, the more relevant the article.
Note: The Relevance setting only sorts records by the relevance score; it does not assign scores to them. You may need to use the <many> operator to assign scores to the results. Unquoted search terms are scored by default; quoted search terms and the results of some operators are not.
Also, to view the most relevant articles first (at the top of the results list), make sure you select Descending in the next step.
· Year sorts records by publication year.
· Article Title sorts records by article title.
5. For In…order, select one of the following orders:
· Descending sorts and displays at the top of the results those records with the highest-relevance scores or latest years, or with titles and authors in Z-A order.
· Ascending (the default) sorts and displays at the top of the results those records with the lowest-relevance scores or earliest years, or with titles and authors in A-Z order.
6. For List…Results per page, select 50, 25, or 10 results per page.