diff --git a/sklearn/metrics/ranking.py b/sklearn/metrics/ranking.py
index 9755732a4f910..4f551d55e87b1 100644
--- a/sklearn/metrics/ranking.py
+++ b/sklearn/metrics/ranking.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ def roc_auc_score(y_true, y_score, average="macro", sample_weight=None):
 
     See also
     --------
-    average_precision_score : Area under the precision-recall curve
+    average_precision_score : Average precision (AP) from prediction scores
 
     roc_curve : Compute Receiver operating characteristic (ROC)