Different sequence of search results in different environments with same set of documents

I am using Sharepoint 2013 Foundation version.
I have set up 2 environments (say environment A and environment B) with the same Window baseline and Sharepoint server farm setup. The similar set of documents have been uploaded to both environments. With input of exactly the same search string at the search
field and enter button pressed, the sequences of entries shown on search result page are different in these 2 environments.
In particular, there is a document 'Monthly Newsletter.pdf' uploaded in both environments. When I type 'Monthly Newsletter' in search field and press enter, this document appears as the first entry in the search result in environment A, but this same document
appears as the 8th entry in the search result in environment B.
May I know the reason? Thanks a lot for advice!

There are a lot of factors that go into computing the "relevance" of any one document. One factor is "closeness". So one question would be how identical are the two environments? Same number of site collections? Are the
documents at the same depth? (sites -> subsites -> libraries -> folders) Are the libraries of the same type, using the same content types and the same metadata> In both cases are you searching from
the same site and are the documents at the same depth?
Ranking is also impacted by past searches. The more people who have clicked through to the document, the higher it will be ranked in the future.
If the two environments are identical, and are only being used for testing, Reset the Indexes and do a new Full Crawl and then test.
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