The Scientific Score:
A Comprehensive & Objective Rating for Life Science Research Products
Choose the best products for your experiment, based on the aggregation of several metrics provided by fellow research scientists, suppliers, and the ZAGENO marketplace.
What is the Scientific Score?
ZAGENO’s Scientific Score is a comprehensive product rating system, specifically developed for evaluating research products. It incorporates several aspects of product data, from multiple sources, to equip scientists with a sophisticated and unbiased product rating for making accurate purchasing decisions.
How Does the Score Evaluate Research Products?
An application-specific evaluation
We apply sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to accurately match, group, and categorize millions of products. The Scientific Score accounts for these categorizations, as each product’s score is calculated relative to those in the same category. The result is a rating system that scientists can trust — one that is specific to both product application and product type.
A fusion of useful product data
Standard product ratings are useful to assess products quickly, but are often biased and unreliable, due to their reliance on unknown reviews or a single metric (e.g. publications). They also provide little detail on experimental context or application.
The Scientific Score utilizes a scientific methodology to objectively and comprehensively evaluate research products. It combines all necessary and relevant product information into a single 0–10 rating to support our customers in deciding which product to buy and use for their application — saving hours of product research.
A neutral and straightforward guide
To ensure no single factor dominates, we add cut-off points and give more weight to recent contributions. The sheer number of factors we take into account virtually eliminates any opportunity for manipulation. As a result, our score is an objective measure of the quality and quantity of available product information, which supports our customers’ purchasing decisions.
Where Can I Find a Product’s Scientific Score?
How Can I Contribute?
Contributors at a Glance
Scientists, suppliers, and ZAGENO all contribute to the Scientific Score, providing:
- Product specifications & resources,
- Product citations in the form of published methods or validations,
- Insights from user behavior analytics.
Each contribution is then weighted based on its importance to the scientist to give a truly meaningful product rating.
Scientist Contributions
- Publications (which cite usage of the product)
Send your publications to scientificscore@zageno.com. Include your name, publication title, publication link (DOI or journal link), and the products used (product names or catalog numbers). - Validations (which verify the product’s efficacy)
Send your antibody validation data to ZAVI (ZAGENO’s Antibody Validation Initiative) via zavi@zageno.com. Validations will then be added as a resource under each product. - How You Benefit
Improve the visibility of your research, increase your exposure and help fellow scientists to evaluate product efficacy.
Supplier Contributions
- Specifications & Resources (size, yield, volume, etc.)
Request a portfolio upload template from our Supplier Partnership team at suppliers@zageno.com. Once returned, your specifications and resources will be published on the ZAGENO marketplace. - Validations (which verify the product’s efficacy)
Send your antibody validation data to ZAVI (ZAGENO’s Antibody Validation Initiative) via zavi@zageno.com. Validations will then be added as a resource under each product. - How You Benefit
Make your portfolio stand out and easy to find for our scientist user base. Help scientists to evaluate the efficacy of your products.
Zageno Marketplace Contributions
- Commercial success of the product (product purchases and re-purchases),
- Performance of the product’s brand (product purchases across the brand),
- User behavior (customers’ interaction with the product).
Scientific Score FAQ
The factors contributing to the final score of a product include, among others:
- Product specifications provided by the manufacturer and supplier (as well as product-specific resources, i.e. handbooks and SDS documents)
- Scientists’ validation results
- Utilization in published methods (such as those found in a product’s resources section)
- The popularity of the product amongst scientists
- The performance of the product’s brand (based on performance across the whole brand range)
- The product's commercial success on ZAGENO
We believe that only a combination of various types of data can provide an accurate rating that accounts for the complexity of scientific products.
If you have additional questions, you can reach us at scientificscore@zageno.com