Table 4.
MCDM methods in the context of COVID-19
| Studies | Ranking method | Weighting method | Existing | New | Extension | Fuzzy environment type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjective | Objective | Hybrid | For ranking | For weights | For ranking | For weights | For ranking | For weights | |||
| Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Pamučar et al. (2020) | Fuzzy RAFSI | – | – | LBWA + MACBETH | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | TFNs |
| Samanıloğlu and Kaya (2020) | F-AHP | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Ocampo and Yamagishi (2020) | DEMATEL | DEMATEL | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | IF |
| Sarwar and Imran (2021) | AHP | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Wu and Xu (2020) | TODIM | – | Entropy | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Yang et al. (2020) | SpNoFWBM | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | SFSs |
| Mahanta and Panda (2020) | New distance measure for IFSs | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | IFSs |
| Sayan et al. (2020) | PROMETHEE–TOPSIS | Direct weight | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Mohammed et al. (2020) | TOPSIS | – | Entropy | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Abdel-Basst et al. (2020b) | TOPSIS | BWM | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TNS |
| Albahri et al. (2020) | VIKOR | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Garg et al. (2020) | Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFNs) | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | FFNs |
| Yang et al. (2021) | CQROULWPBM | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | CQROULSs |
| Shirazi et al. (2020) | PROMETHEE | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Naeem et al. (2020) | PmF-TOPSIS | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | ImFT |
| Ortiz-Barrios et al. (2020) | TOPSIS | F-AHP-DEMATEL | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Wan et al. (2021) | VIKOR | TrIT2F-BWM | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ✓ | TrIT2F |
| Manupati et al. (2021) | F-VIKOR | Direct weight | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | TFNs |
| Zhang et al. (2020) | MULTIMOORA | – | – | Cross entropy of UPLZs | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ✓ | UPLZ |
| Bharsakade et al. (2021) | F-AHP | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Mishra et al. (2019) | HF-ARAS | Hesitant Fuzzy (HF-divergence measure) | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | HFSs |
| Baz et al. (2020) | F-AHP | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Ashraf and Abdullah (2020) | TOPSIS-GRA | – | – | AHP + Spherical Fuzzy Entropy | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | SFSs |
| Jain et al. (2021) | VIKOR | BWM | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Ghorui (2021) | HFS-TOPSIS | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Grida et al. (2020) | TOPSIS | BWM | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | NTS |
| Jamshidiantehrani et al. (2020) | – | ISM | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Sharma et al. (2020) | FLQOWA | FLQOWA | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | TFNs |
| Khurana et al. (2020) | AHP | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Ghosh et al. (2020) | F-AHP | F-AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) |
| Moslem et al. (2020) | – | BWM | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Shah et al. (2020) | F-VIKOR | F-DEMATEL—F-ANP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Lam et al. (2021) | F-VIKOR | – | Entropy | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Duan et al. (2021) | IMEEM | BBWM | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Yao (2021) | F-VIKOR | F-AHP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Altuntas and Gok (2021) | DEMATEL | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Ecer and Pamucar (2021) | MARCOS | MARCOS | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | IF |
| Althaf and Babbitt (2021) | TOPSIS | Direct weight | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Chauhan et al. (2020) | DEMATEL | DEMATEL | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Mardani et al. (2020) | WASPAS | SWARA | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | HFS |
| Gong et al. 2021) | LHF-TODIM | LHF-BWM | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | LHFSs |
| Percentages % | 63.41 | 75.61 | 12.20 | 4.88 | 19.51 | 14.63 | |||||
| Development | |||||||||||
| Requia et al. (2019) | AHP | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Ashraf et al. (2020) | COPRAS | TOPSIS | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | SFN |
| Ahmad et al. (2021) | Fuzzy assessment | Fuzzy assessment | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TFNs |
| Nardo et al. (2020) | PAPRIKA | PAPRIKA | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Abdulsalam and Hossain (2020) | TOPSIS | Direct weight | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Albahri et al. (2020) | VIKOR | AHP | –– | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Albahri and Hamid (2020) | TOPSIS | – | Entropy | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Albahri (2020) | SODOSM | – | Entropy | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | N/A |
| Alsalem et al. (2021) | VIKOR | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Mohammed (2021) | TOPSIS | AHP | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | N/A |
| Hezam et al. (2020) | AHP | AHP | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | TNS |
| Zidan (2021) | PFDOSM | PFWZIC | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | PFN |
| Zaidan (2021a) | T-SFDOSM | T-SFWZIC | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | T-spherical Fuzzy |
| Zaidan (2021b) | q-ROFDOSM | q-ROFWZIC | – | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | q-ROFS |
| Percentages % | 71.43 | 71.43 | 7.14 | 0.00 | 21.43 | 21.43 | |||||
N/A = Not applicable
(✓) for including
(–-) for not including