diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/DiscoverResult.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/DiscoverResult.java
index 9845bd9a09..a6bfa0b2b5 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/DiscoverResult.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/DiscoverResult.java
@@ -186,13 +186,10 @@ public class DiscoverResult {
     public static final class IndexableObjectHighlightResult {
         private IndexableObject indexableObject;
         private Map<String, List<String>> highlightResults;
-        private Map<String, List<String[]>> highlightResultsWithAuthority;
 
-        public IndexableObjectHighlightResult(IndexableObject idxObj, Map<String, List<String>> highlightResults,
-                Map<String, List<String[]>> highlightResultsWithAuthority) {
+        public IndexableObjectHighlightResult(IndexableObject idxObj, Map<String, List<String>> highlightResults) {
             this.indexableObject = idxObj;
             this.highlightResults = highlightResults;
-            this.highlightResultsWithAuthority = highlightResultsWithAuthority;
         }
 
         /**
@@ -215,17 +212,6 @@ public class DiscoverResult {
             return highlightResults.get(metadataKey);
         }
 
-        /**
-         * The matching snippets for a specific metadata including the authority value if any
-         * 
-         * @param metadataKey
-         *            the metadata where the snippets have been found
-         * @return the matching snippets
-         */
-        public List<String[]> getHighlightResultsWithAuthority(String metadataKey) {
-            return highlightResultsWithAuthority.get(metadataKey);
-        }
-
         /**
          * All the matching snippets in whatever metadata ignoring any authority value
          * 
diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/SolrServiceImpl.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/SolrServiceImpl.java
index 0c48e5b10d..f0e26238ef 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/SolrServiceImpl.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/discovery/SolrServiceImpl.java
@@ -2107,7 +2107,6 @@ public class SolrServiceImpl implements SearchService, IndexingService {
                     if (MapUtils.isNotEmpty(highlightedFields)) {
                         //We need to remove all the "_hl" appendix strings from our keys
                         Map<String, List<String>> resultMap = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
-                        Map<String, List<String[]>> resultMapWithAuthority = new HashMap<String, List<String[]>>();
                         for (String key : highlightedFields.keySet()) {
                             List<String> highlightOriginalValue = highlightedFields.get(key);
                             List<String[]> resultHighlightOriginalValue = new ArrayList<String[]>();
@@ -2117,12 +2116,10 @@ public class SolrServiceImpl implements SearchService, IndexingService {
 
                             }
                             resultMap.put(key.substring(0, key.lastIndexOf("_hl")), highlightedFields.get(key));
-                            resultMapWithAuthority
-                                .put(key.substring(0, key.lastIndexOf("_hl")), resultHighlightOriginalValue);
                         }
 
                         result.addHighlightedResult(dso,
-                            new DiscoverResult.IndexableObjectHighlightResult(dso, resultMap, resultMapWithAuthority));
+                            new DiscoverResult.IndexableObjectHighlightResult(dso, resultMap));
                     }
                 }
             }