How we score psychiatrists in Milan

Milan Psychiatrist Guide currently scores 84 psychiatrist businesses in Milan. Every score comes from a single composite formula applied the same way to every listing. Nobody adjusts the number after the fact, and there is no way to purchase a better position. This page explains exactly what goes into the score, why we weighted it this way, and where the method runs into honest limits.

The five signals behind the score

Each business gets a score from 0 to 100, built from five measured signals. We list them here from heaviest to lightest weight.

Sentiment: 28%

This is the largest single factor, and deliberately so. We read through recent reviews and synthesise the themes that come up: what people praise, what they complain about, and whether problems repeat. A star average on its own can hide a lot. Two practices can sit at the same 4.3 stars while one has a string of recent reviews mentioning missed appointments or a rushed first visit, and the other doesn't. Averages don't show that. Reading the actual text does. That's the gap sentiment analysis is meant to close, and it's why it carries more weight than the star rating itself.

Rating: 26%

The Google aggregate star rating still matters. It's a quick, broad signal of how satisfied past patients have generally been, and it reflects a larger pool of opinion than any one reviewer's comment. We treat it as a strong signal, just not the whole story, which is why sentiment is weighted slightly higher.

Volume: 20%

A rating built on five reviews and a rating built on three hundred are not equally trustworthy, even if the stars match. We log-scale review volume so that going from 5 to 50 reviews matters a lot, while going from 500 to 550 barely moves the needle. This stops a handful of enthusiastic reviews from outranking a practice with a long, consistent track record.

Recency: 14%

A psychiatrist practice can change: new doctors join, booking systems improve or get worse, wait times shift. Reviews from three years ago describe a business that may not exist in the same form today. We weight recent reviews more heavily so the score reflects what patients are experiencing now, not just historically.

Completeness: 12%

We check whether a listing has a working phone number, a website, posted hours and a full address. This isn't about marketing polish. It's a practical signal of whether a prospective patient can actually reach the practice and know what to expect before calling.

Where the score has limits

Some practices simply don't have much review activity, recent or otherwise. When that's the case, we label the score as low-confidence rather than pretend a handful of reviews carries the same weight as a large, active review history. We also don't republish reviews wholesale. What you'll see on a listing is our synthesis of the patterns in recent feedback, with a link out to the underlying Google listing so you can read the original reviews yourself and judge for your own.

No paid placement, no editorial reordering, without saying so

This directory does not sell placement. Scores are earned strictly from the rubric above, applied to public data. Where paid placement exists anywhere on the site, it is always labelled clearly as such and it never changes a score. Separately, if any list on this site has picks or ordering that were adjusted by editorial judgment rather than the formula alone, that page discloses it directly. Absent that disclosure, what you're looking at is the rubric, unedited.

Who publishes and maintains this guide

Milan Psychiatrist Guide is published by Federico Baranzini Psichiatra a Milano, practicing in Milan since 2012. Dr. Federico Baranzini is a psychiatrist, psychogeriatrician and psychotherapist who has practiced in Milan since 2004. You can read more about his practice on his professional site.

Editorial oversight of the rankings sits with Federico Baranzini, Managing, who is responsible for how the methodology is applied across the directory. Data behind every listing is refreshed monthly, and each listing carries a "last verified" stamp so you can see when it was last checked rather than assuming it's current.

Questions about a listing or the methodology can go directly to the publisher at federico.baranzini@gmail.com or by phone at 3881044874.

To see the rubric applied to a specific shortlist, visit our best adult psychiatry picks, or return to the directory home to browse all 84 listings.