Getting maximum value of field in solr

I'd like to boost my query by the item's view count; I'd like to use something like view_count / max_view_count for this purpose, to be able to measure how the item's view count relates to the biggest view count in the index. I know how to boost the results with a function query, but how can I easily get the maximum view count? If anybody could provide an example it would be very helpful...