Features of the search profiles in the INIS-RS service

Report is presented on the INIS-RS service being performed for nuclear people in Japan from 1979. Brief information on the INIS database and the retrieval system is stated in the first place. Analyses are made on the 322 items to reveal the composition and characteristics of the search profiles processed at the JAERI. Results are shown on the executing ratios of preliminaly search and of ranking retrieval with weighted descriptors. Each number of search terms and of logical operators used in each query is described with correlation of the number between terms and AND(*) operators. Descriptions are also given on the relevance ratio of the retrieval and number of the documents retrieved. (author)