Bioz Ratings For Life-Science Research

Algorithmic Product Ratings

Quickly choose products that have been used frequently and recently by other researchers in their experiments, as mentioned in published peer-reviewed scientific articles. Those products that have been used frequently and recently will have high Bioz Stars scores.

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100-point scale

95-100Excellent

90-94Great

85-89Very Good

80-84Good

75-79Acceptable

Bioz Introduces Dynamic Ratings

Products that were mentioned in articles receive a Bioz Stars score, whereas products that have not yet been mentioned in articles receive a Bioz vStars score. Ratings are dynamic, and adjusted as new articles get published. Newly mentioned products transition from vStars to Stars.

Bioz Stars - Score Parameters

Product Mentions Index product popularity relative to corpus

Article Recency date of the product mention

Journal Impact Factor as published annually by Thomson Reuters

Article Citation Strength citation count relative to product mentions

Efficacy Factor popularity in category relative to corpus average

Tendency Factor popularity relative to category average

Timeline Slope Factor product usage timeline trend anomaly adjustment

Product Recency product age relative to corpus

Search Frequency number of appearances in bioz.com search results

Product Preference Depth number of product details page visits

Quick-View Interest number of quick-view interactions in search results

Supplier Button Referrals supplier button referral count

Score Normalization relative to category

Score Standardization relative to category

Manufacturer Factor original manufacturer weighting adjustment

Bioz vStars - Score Parameters

Mentions Average average mentions of supplier's cited products

Article Recency Average average recency of supplier’s cited products

Impact Factor Average average Impact Factor of supplier’s cited products

Unique Supplier Mentions number of supplier’s unique product mentions

vStar Count number of supplier’s uncited products

Supplier Size number of products in catalog (revenue, if public)

Supplier Age year in which supplier was established