diff --git a/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_master.xml b/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_master.xml
index ee348b9d9f7..3c2460fa6fb 100644
--- a/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_master.xml
+++ b/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_master.xml
@@ -686,13 +686,55 @@
        of SearchComponents (see below) and supports distributed
        queries across multiple shards
     -->
-  <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
+   <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
     <!-- default values for query parameters can be specified, these
          will be overridden by parameters in the request
       -->
     <lst name="defaults">
       <str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
       <int name="rows">10</int>
+      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
+      <float name="tie">0.075</float>
+        <str name="qf">
+            dvName^400
+            authorName^180
+            dvSubject^190
+            dvDescription^180
+            dvAffiliation^170
+            title^130
+            subject^120
+            keyword^110
+            topicClassValue^100
+            dsDescriptionValue^90
+            authorAffiliation^80
+            publicationCitation^60
+            producerName^50
+            fileName^30
+            fileDescription^30
+            variableLabel^20
+            variableName^10
+            text^1.0
+        </str>
+        <str name="pf">
+            dvName^200
+            authorName^100
+            dvSubject^100
+            dvDescription^100
+            dvAffiliation^100
+            title^75
+            subject^75
+            keyword^75
+            topicClassValue^75
+            dsDescriptionValue^75
+            authorAffiliation^75
+            publicationCitation^75
+            producerName^75
+        </str>
+        <!-- Even though this number is huge it only seems to apply a boost of ~1.5x to final result -MAD 4.9.3 -->
+        <str name="bq">
+            isHarvested:false^25000
+        </str>
+
       <!-- Default search field
          <str name="df">text</str> 
         -->
@@ -924,27 +966,6 @@
       <str name="spellcheck.collateExtendedResults">true</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">10</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">5</str>
-      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
-<str name="qf">
-dvName^170
-dvSubject^160
-dvDescription^150
-dvAffiliation^140
-title^130
-subject^120
-keyword^110
-topicClassValue^100
-dsDescriptionValue^90
-authorName^80
-authorAffiliation^70
-publicationCitation^60
-producerName^50
-fileName^40
-fileDescription^30
-variableLabel^20
-variableName^10
-text^1.0
-</str>
     </lst>
     <arr name="last-components">
       <str>spellcheck</str>
diff --git a/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_slave.xml b/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_slave.xml
index ac5e5124efb..ac10cc995a3 100644
--- a/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_slave.xml
+++ b/conf/docker/solr/solrconfig_slave.xml
@@ -686,13 +686,55 @@
        of SearchComponents (see below) and supports distributed
        queries across multiple shards
     -->
-  <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
+   <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
     <!-- default values for query parameters can be specified, these
          will be overridden by parameters in the request
       -->
     <lst name="defaults">
       <str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
       <int name="rows">10</int>
+      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
+      <float name="tie">0.075</float>
+        <str name="qf">
+            dvName^400
+            authorName^180
+            dvSubject^190
+            dvDescription^180
+            dvAffiliation^170
+            title^130
+            subject^120
+            keyword^110
+            topicClassValue^100
+            dsDescriptionValue^90
+            authorAffiliation^80
+            publicationCitation^60
+            producerName^50
+            fileName^30
+            fileDescription^30
+            variableLabel^20
+            variableName^10
+            text^1.0
+        </str>
+        <str name="pf">
+            dvName^200
+            authorName^100
+            dvSubject^100
+            dvDescription^100
+            dvAffiliation^100
+            title^75
+            subject^75
+            keyword^75
+            topicClassValue^75
+            dsDescriptionValue^75
+            authorAffiliation^75
+            publicationCitation^75
+            producerName^75
+        </str>
+        <!-- Even though this number is huge it only seems to apply a boost of ~1.5x to final result -MAD 4.9.3 -->
+        <str name="bq">
+            isHarvested:false^25000
+        </str>
+
       <!-- Default search field
          <str name="df">text</str> 
         -->
@@ -924,27 +966,6 @@
       <str name="spellcheck.collateExtendedResults">true</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">10</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">5</str>
-      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
-<str name="qf">
-dvName^170
-dvSubject^160
-dvDescription^150
-dvAffiliation^140
-title^130
-subject^120
-keyword^110
-topicClassValue^100
-dsDescriptionValue^90
-authorName^80
-authorAffiliation^70
-publicationCitation^60
-producerName^50
-fileName^40
-fileDescription^30
-variableLabel^20
-variableName^10
-text^1.0
-</str>
     </lst>
     <arr name="last-components">
       <str>spellcheck</str>
diff --git a/conf/solr/7.3.0/solrconfig.xml b/conf/solr/7.3.0/solrconfig.xml
index 599506fd454..161dddca8cb 100644
--- a/conf/solr/7.3.0/solrconfig.xml
+++ b/conf/solr/7.3.0/solrconfig.xml
@@ -693,6 +693,48 @@
     <lst name="defaults">
       <str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
       <int name="rows">10</int>
+      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
+      <float name="tie">0.075</float>
+        <str name="qf">
+            dvName^400
+            authorName^180
+            dvSubject^190
+            dvDescription^180
+            dvAffiliation^170
+            title^130
+            subject^120
+            keyword^110
+            topicClassValue^100
+            dsDescriptionValue^90
+            authorAffiliation^80
+            publicationCitation^60
+            producerName^50
+            fileName^30
+            fileDescription^30
+            variableLabel^20
+            variableName^10
+            text^1.0
+        </str>
+        <str name="pf">
+            dvName^200
+            authorName^100
+            dvSubject^100
+            dvDescription^100
+            dvAffiliation^100
+            title^75
+            subject^75
+            keyword^75
+            topicClassValue^75
+            dsDescriptionValue^75
+            authorAffiliation^75
+            publicationCitation^75
+            producerName^75
+        </str>
+        <!-- Even though this number is huge it only seems to apply a boost of ~1.5x to final result -MAD 4.9.3 -->
+        <str name="bq">
+            isHarvested:false^25000
+        </str>
+
       <!-- Default search field
          <str name="df">text</str> 
         -->
@@ -924,27 +966,6 @@
       <str name="spellcheck.collateExtendedResults">true</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">10</str>
       <str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">5</str>
-      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
-<str name="qf">
-dvName^170
-dvSubject^160
-dvDescription^150
-dvAffiliation^140
-title^130
-subject^120
-keyword^110
-topicClassValue^100
-dsDescriptionValue^90
-authorName^80
-authorAffiliation^70
-publicationCitation^60
-producerName^50
-fileName^40
-fileDescription^30
-variableLabel^20
-variableName^10
-text^1.0
-</str>
     </lst>
     <arr name="last-components">
       <str>spellcheck</str>
diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/installation/prerequisites.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/installation/prerequisites.rst
index eda0f293e85..71a285dddc4 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/installation/prerequisites.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/installation/prerequisites.rst
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ You should already have a "dvinstall.zip" file that you downloaded from https://
         cp /tmp/dvinstall/schema.xml /usr/local/solr/solr-7.3.0/server/solr/collection1/conf
         cp /tmp/dvinstall/solrconfig.xml /usr/local/solr/solr-7.3.0/server/solr/collection1/conf
 
-Note: Dataverse has customized Solr to boost results that come from certain indexed elements inside Dataverse, for example results matching on the name of a dataset. If you would like to remove this, edit your ``solrconfig.xml`` and remove the ``<str name="qf">`` element and its contents.
+Note: Dataverse has customized Solr to boost results that come from certain indexed elements inside Dataverse, for example prioritizing results from Dataverses over Datasets. If you would like to remove this, edit your ``solrconfig.xml`` and remove the ``<str name="qf">`` element and its contents. If you have ideas about how this boosting could be improved, feel free to contact us through our Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dataverse-dev .
 
 Dataverse requires a change to the ``jetty.xml`` file that ships with Solr. Edit ``/usr/local/solr/solr-7.3.0/server/etc/jetty.xml`` , increasing ``requestHeaderSize`` from ``8192`` to ``102400``