diff --git a/services/searchResearchResults.service.ts b/services/searchResearchResults.service.ts
index 3e49a7cc..aadcd730 100644
--- a/services/searchResearchResults.service.ts
+++ b/services/searchResearchResults.service.ts
@@ -133,7 +133,14 @@ export class SearchResearchResultsService {
     return this.http.get((properties.useLongCache && size == 0 && !params && (!refineQuery || !refineQuery.includes("fq="))) ? (properties.cacheUrl + encodeURIComponent(url)) : url)
         .pipe(map(res => [res['meta'].total, this.parseResults(resultType, res['results'], properties), RefineResultsUtils.parse(res['refineResults'], refineFields, "publication")]));
   }
+ countResults(field:string,value:string): any {
+    let url = properties.utilsService + "/portals/countResults";
+    if (field && value) {
+      url += "?field=" + encodeURIComponent(field) + "&value="+encodeURIComponent(value);
+    }
 
+    return this.http.get((properties.useLongCache  ) ? (properties.cacheUrl + encodeURIComponent(url)) : url);
+  }
   searchResultForEntity(resultType: string, params: string, page: number, size: number, properties: EnvProperties): any {
     let link = properties.searchAPIURLLAst;
     //let url = link+params+"/"+this.getEntityQueryName(resultType,true)+ "?format=json";