Table 2 Recent DEMATEL studies.

From: Advancing urban sustainability assessment: a novel DEA-based framework for multidimensional analysis in Chinese cities

Article

Coverage

Research field

Feature of DEMATEL

Assisting method

Coupling index

BoD

DEA

Relative weight analysis

Liu et al. (2023)

110 cities, China, 2014-2018

Urban innovation ecosystem

BP DEMATEL

NK model

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Bao et al. (2023)

5 mature coal cities, China, 2019

Environmental carrying capacity

BP DEMATEL

Normal cloud model

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Kumar et al. (2023)

5 food organizations, India

Food

Grey DEMATEL

ISM

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Wu et al. (2022)

7 academic departments, a university

Education

DEMATEL

TODIM method, sensitivity analysis, cross-efficiency

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Lu et al. (2022)

30 provinces, China, 2007-2017

Energy poverty

Fuzzy DEMATEL

Clustering analysis

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Wang et al. (2022)

125 cities, China, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018

Health

FSM-DEMATEL

Grey entropy weight

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Ren et al. (2022)

Taishan Mountain, China

Mountain

BP DEMATEL

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Liu et al. (2022)

4 provinces, China

Sustainable supply chain

DEMATEL

ANP, system collaboration model

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Altuntas and Gok (2021)

12 regions, Turkey

Health

DEMATEL

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Chen and Chen (2021)

11 provinces or municipalities, China, 2008-2017

Water–energy–food coordination

DEMATEL

CRITIC, entropy weight, GTCW, symbiotic Index

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El-Garaihy (2021)

20 supply chain, Saudi Arabia, 2018-2019

Supply chain

DEMATEL

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Kilic and Yalcin (2021)

5 municipalities, Asia

Environmental sustainability

Neutrosophic DEMATEL

TOPSIS

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Ghosh et al. (2021)

Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India, 2001-2011

Urban ecological security

DEMATEL

ANP, cellular automata-Markov

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de Campos et al. (2021)

10 municipal pharmacies, Brazil

Health

Grey DEMATEL

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Qin et al. (2020)

Jinan, China, 2017

Urban shrinkage risk

BP DEMATEL

Entropy weight

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Li et al. (2020)

Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, China

Regional sustainability

BP DEMATEL

Coordination degree model

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Yazdani et al. (2020)

Alboraya town, Valencia Province, Spain

Sustainable agricultural supply chain

Fuzzy DEMATEL

Quality function deployment

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Jiang et al. (2020)

A hospital, Shanghai, China

Health

linguistic Z-DEMATEL

Sensitivity analysis

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Wang et al. (2019)

A hotel, China

Energy

Interval DEMATEL

Interval VIKOR method

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  1. ANP analytic network process, BP back propagation, CRITIC criteria importance through intercriteria correlation, DEMATEL Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory, FSM fuzzy synthetic method, ISM interpretive structural modeling, TOPSIS technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution.