Table 1 Summary of related studies
Study | Weight determination | MCDM method | Number of alternatives | Number of performance indicators | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wang (2008) | – | Fuzzy TOPSIS | 3 | 21 | 2001–2005 |
Wu et al. (2009) | Fuzzy AHP | SAW, TOPSIS, VIKOR | 3 | 23 | |
Chen et al. (2011) | – | DEMATEL, ANP | – | 15 | 2009 |
Kung et al. (2011) | Fuzzy AHP | Fuzzy TOPSIS | 5 | 7 | – |
Baležentis et al. (2012) | – | Fuzzy VIKOR, Fuzzy TOPSIS, Fuzzy ARAS | 11 | 6 | 2007–2010 |
Ignatius et al. (2012) | – | PROMETHEE II | 8 | 7 | 2009–2010 |
Lee et al. (2012) | Entropy | GRA | 4 | 25 | 1999–2009 |
Yalcin et al. (2012) | Fuzzy AHP | TOPSIS, VIKOR | 13 | 8 | 2007 |
Yalçın and Bayrakdaroğlu (2012) | Fuzzy AHP | Fuzzy AHP, VIKOR | 17 | 7 | 1998–2011 |
Esbouei et al. (2014) | Fuzzy ANP | Fuzzy VIKOR | 143 | 11 | 2002–2011 |
Ghadikolaei et al. (2014) | Fuzzy AHP | Fuzzy VIKOR, ARAS-F, Fuzzy COPRAS | 6 | 11 | 2002–2011 |
Shen and Tzeng (2015) | DEMATEL-based ANP | VIKOR | 34 | 25 | 2008–2011 |
Islamoglu et al. (2015) | Entropy | TOPSIS | 25 | 16 | 2011–2014 |
Visalakshmi et al. (2015) | DEMATEL | TOPSIS | 14 | 16 | 2008–2012 |
Wanke et al. (2016) | – | Fuzzy AHP, TOPSIS, ANN | 88 | 25 | 2010–2013 |
Chang and Tsai (2016) | AHP | VIKOR | 7 | 25 | 2007–2008 |
Erdoğan et al. (2016) | Buckley’s Column Geometric Mean | TOPSIS, VIKOR, ELECTRE | 21 | 8 | 2011–2014 |
Farrokh et al. (2016) | Fuzzy AHP | VIKOR, TOPSIS | 8 | 12 | – |
Alimohammadlou and Bonyani (2017) | BWM | PROMETHEE II | 14 | 5 | 2011–2015 |
Inani and Gupta (2017) | Equal weighting | TOPSIS | 9 | 10 | 2011–2015 |
Ic et al. (2020) | AHP | Regression-AHP, VIKOR | 5 | 9 | 2007–2011 |
Ayçin and Güçlü (2020) | Entropy | MAIRCA | 17 | 8 | 2018 |
Abdel-Basset et al. (2020) | AHP | VIKOR, TOPSIS | 10 | 20 | – |
Aldalou and Perçin (2020) | Fuzzy Shannon's Entropy | Fuzzy EDAS | 21 | 18 | 2015–2017 |
Bağcı and Yerdelen Kaygın (2020) | Entropy | ARAS, WASPAS | 43 | 5 | 2000–2017 |
Grida et al. (2020) | BWM | VIKOR | 5 | 23 | – |
Entropy | CoCoSo | 27 | 10 | 2015–2019 | |
Armağan et al. (2021) | SECA | SECA | 12 | 5 | 2020 |
Baydaş and Elma (2021) | Hybrid, Entropy, Equal weighting | TOPSIS, WSA, PROMETHEE | 131 | 7 | 2014–2018 |
Bektaş (2021) | Entropy | MAIRCA | 6 | 6 | 2018–2019 |
Kumaran (2021) | Objective weighting | VIKOR | 18 | 6 | 2012–2018 |
Lam et al. (2021) | Entropy weighting | Fuzzy VIKOR | 20 | 6 | 2015–2019 |
Ersoy (2021) | Improved entropy | VIKOR | 15 | 9 | 2017–2018 |
Pala (2021) | Correlation Coefficient and Standart Deviation | CoCoSo | 9 | 8 | 2019–2020 |
Topal (2021) | Entropy | CoCoSo | 10 | 8 | 2019 |
Iç et al. (2022) | AHP | AHP and Design of Experiments | 18 | 44 | 2002–2016 |
Baydas and Pamucar (2022) | Equal weighting | PROMETHEE, FUCA, TOPSIS, SAW, CODAS, COPRAS, MOORA | 24 | 7 | 2019–2021 |