The phrase "a reference point against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or benchmark for comparison in various contexts, such as analysis or evaluation.
Example: "The study serves as a reference point against which we can measure the effectiveness of the new policy."
Alternatives: "a benchmark for" or "a standard for comparison".
This provides a reference point against which proposed offers can be evaluated.
Moreover, they can provide a reference point against which scientists can measure the change in environments elsewhere.
Through analysis of OECD archives, we extract the reasons why OECD changed its role in the absence of a reference point against which to benchmark national situations.
An index, sector, or peer group benchmark is a reference point against which trading/investment system's performance measurements can be made.
Your chapter helped me frame the issues in a rational manner, which gave the members of the Board a reference point against which to judge the validity of the claims they were hearing.
The 335-page document is likely to be a reference point against which the government's anti-poverty record will be judged, and to feature strongly in opposition party manifestos for the 2015 general election.
It brings together summaries of the best thinking and practices in this area from leading researchers in the field and constitutes a reference point for standards against which future methodological advances can be judged.
In their ethnographic study, the researchers found that certain events would be reinvoked by young men for the 'shared pleasure of mutual retelling', elevating the event to a mythic status that became a key reference point against which young men would make sense of their identity within the school and the peer group context (Kehily and Nayak 1997, 76).
Electric potential, the amount of work needed to move a unit charge from a reference point to a specific point against an electric field.
Thus the frequency of YFP+ cells was a useful reference point against which to look for effects of p56Lck deficiency.
Another Middlebury professor, Thomas Beyer, of the Russian department, said, "I guess I am not terribly impressed by anyone citing an encyclopedia as a reference point, but I am not against using it as a starting point".
