Abstract: A method for evaluating documents is based on filtering documents according to specific interest profiles (a, . . . , g) from the body (1) of existing documents and to assign them and make them available simultaneously to document-specific readers (A, . . . , G). These document-specific readers have the task of evaluating the documents and perform a relevance evaluation. A computer system (4) coordinates the evaluation process by means of a coordination table (5). A document-specific overall relevance is formed from the separate, individual relevance evaluations. Documents with a specific relevance are assigned to a subject-specific decision-making instance (PRO). In one embodiment of the invention, the subject-specific decision-making instance performs a new relevance evaluation. Depending on this evaluation, the subject-specific decision-making instance may initiate differentiated subsequent processes together with an administrative decision-making instance (SPO/SPA).