diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/search.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/search.rst
index baae7820de8..25bad2b8091 100755
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/search.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/api/search.rst
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ https://demo.dataverse.org/api/search?q=trees
                        "Astronomy and Astrophysics",
                        "Other"
                     ],
+                    "fileCount":3,
                     "versionId":1260,
                     "versionState":"RELEASED",
                     "majorVersion":3,
@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ The above example ``fq=publicationStatus:Published`` retrieves only "RELEASED" v
                     "subjects": [
                         "Medicine, Health and Life Sciences"
                     ],
+                    "fileCount":6,
                     "versionId": 53001,
                     "versionState": "RELEASED",
                     "majorVersion": 1,
@@ -323,6 +325,7 @@ The above example ``fq=publicationStatus:Published`` retrieves only "RELEASED" v
                     "subjects": [
                         "Medicine, Health and Life Sciences"
                     ],
+                    "fileCount":9,
                     "versionId": 53444,
                     "versionState": "RELEASED",
                     "majorVersion": 1,
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/search/SolrSearchResult.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/search/SolrSearchResult.java
index 181ad7719ed..874717f77e5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/search/SolrSearchResult.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/search/SolrSearchResult.java
@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ public JsonObjectBuilder json(boolean showRelevance, boolean showEntityIds, bool
                     subjects.add(subject);
                 }
                 nullSafeJsonBuilder.add("subjects", subjects);
+                nullSafeJsonBuilder.add("fileCount", dv.getFileMetadatas().size());
                 nullSafeJsonBuilder.add("versionId", dv.getId());
                 nullSafeJsonBuilder.add("versionState", dv.getVersionState().toString());
                 if(this.isPublishedState()){
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/SearchIT.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/SearchIT.java
index 4768a8b80c4..c83afc1470c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/SearchIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/SearchIT.java
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ public void testDatasetThumbnail() {
         search2.prettyPrint();
         search2.then().assertThat()
                 .body("data.items[0].name", CoreMatchers.equalTo("Darwin's Finches"))
+                .body("data.items[0].fileCount", CoreMatchers.equalTo(1))
                 .statusCode(200);
 
         //Unpublished datafiles no longer populate the dataset thumbnail