IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 512 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS IN THE AREA OF SUSTAINABILITY: A LITERATURE REVIEW Praveen Goyal Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India praveeng23@gmail.com Divesh Kumar Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India divesh.dms@mnit.ac.in Vinod Kumar* Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow (India) vkmehta.iitr@gmail.com *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is a decision-making technique that is used by practitioners and frequently discussed and applied by researchers. This present study attempts to review the literature of applications of MCDA techniques in the area of sustainability using citation analysis. For the data collection, the Scopus database was used. With the help of related keywords, 701 research papers were identified and found suitable for analysis. These papers were then analyzed based on country, author, citation, year, and other criteria to demonstrate the pattern of research applying MCDA in sustainability. The CiteSpace tool was also used to present the clusters, citation analysis, and keywords as bursts. The findings of the present study will help future researchers better explore the field. Keywords: Citation analysis; CiteSpace; multi-criteria decision analysis; sustainable development; and sustainability. 1. Introduction If the phrase ‘citation analysis’ is searched on Google Scholar, it yields about 4,850,000 results (Sheoran et al., 2018). After browsing a few pages, it becomes evident that this technique has been applied in many disciplines. The field of sustainability is also not untouched as far as the application of citation analysis is concerned. Various studies have been conducted using citation analysis to gain insights from the field of sustainability (Schoolman et al., 2012; Tang et al., 2018). However, the authors were unable to find a single study on the application of this technique in the combined field of MCDA and sustainability. mailto:praveeng23@gmail.com mailto:divesh.dms@mnit.ac.in mailto:vkmehta.iitr@gmail.com IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 513 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 MCDA has been used very frequently to solve complex decision-making issues in the shortest time possible (Alitaneh, 2019). Most decision-making situations involve many factors, and therefore, MCDA techniques are becoming very important. MCDA includes many analytical techniques such as AHP, DEMETAL, ELECTRE, VIKOR, Value Analysis, PROMETHEE, and Rough Set (Gonzalez & Pradenas, 2019). Several studies have used Fuzzy extensions and hybrids to solve MCDA-based problems (Ghorabaee et al., 2017). It is worth mentioning here that previous studies have found a growing trend of research in sustainability (Mura et al., 2018; Tang et al., 2018). It has become increasingly important to take the field of sustainability deeper to provide direction to future researchers. Moreover, the area of sustainability has yet to be explored to the core. Therefore, the present study explores and investigates the application of MCDA and sustainability through citation analysis. The paper begins with a brief review of the literature and then discusses the methodology of the study. The chosen studies are segregated based on several criteria to gain insights. The paper concludes with a discussion, implications, and directions for future research. 2. Literature review Past studies have explored different functional areas of sustainability using a citation analysis-based approach. Recently, Tang et al. (2018) broadly reviewed the field of sustainability with the help of 6,459 papers published from 2009-2018 using citation analysis. Schoolman et al. (2012) also examined the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sustainability using citation analysis by segregating the literature based on three dimensions of sustainability, i.e., environmental, economic, and social. Chabowski et al. (2011) explored the sustainability marketing literature from 1958-2010. Liu et al. (2017) and Ruiz-Real et al. (2019) took the field of sustainability marketing further using a citation analysis approach and studied sustainability from the consumption and retail perspectives, respectively. Fu et al. (2016) performed a citation analysis to dig deeper into sustainability operations and allied areas. All of these studies are limited because they only discover the link between sustainability and different management streams such as marketing, operations, and general management, and none of them were able to establish the connection of sustainability with any of the methods. As far as the application of citation analysis in the area of sustainability and MCDA techniques is concerned, Taticchi et al. (2015) studied the application of MCDA to the area of the sustainable supply chain management. Similarly, Kumar et al. (2017) also explored the use of MCDA techniques in the area of sustainable and renewable energy management. Pohekar and Ramachandran (2004) restricted the scope of their study to a single MCDA technique, i.e., the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), to investigate the field of sustainable energy management. These studies also made some focused efforts to review the literature on sustainability and MCDA. This review identified some gaps in the limited literature available on the subject. The past studies were either too broad or too narrow to study the sustainability literature. The IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 514 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 field of sustainability has been explored in some specific directions. Moreover, previous studies had a very limited scope from the perspective of MCDA techniques. Therefore, it is evident from the above discussion that there is a need to perform a comprehensive analysis of the literature, taking into account the application of MCDA techniques in the field of sustainability. 3. Methodology In this paper, we reviewed a total of 701 scientific articles published in refereed journals focusing on MCDA techniques. For simplicity, this review paper focuses on “multi- criteria decision analysis” as a single search item because using every technique as a search item would have increased the complexity of the results. This paper intends to classify articles based on country context, year of publication, citations, journal name, etc. The methodology for the present research has been adopted from Sheoran et al. (2018). Data were sought through the Scopus database using keywords like “multi- criteria decision analysis" OR "MCDA” and “sustainability” or “sustainable”. The papers were selected using the keywords sustainability OR sustainable in Title of Document AND Multi Criteria Decision analysis OR MCDA in Title, Abstract, and Keywords in the Scopus database. 3.1 CiteSpace methodology This present study sought to develop a comprehensive list of MCDA articles published from 1996 to 2018 in the area of sustainability. Elsevier's Scopus database was used to extract the data for this study, which is “the largest abstract and citation database of peer- reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.” (Elsevier, 2018) The number of journals covered under the Scopus database is one of the motivating factors to use it. The Scopus database provides information such as author, title, abstract, affiliating institute, country, keywords, funding agency, and so on. This present study used the Citespace tool to visualize research patterns and trends in MCDA research. “These data can be used to conduct temporal and spatial analysis, analysis of word co- occurrence, co-authorship analysis, and co-citation analysis.” (Jiang et. al, 2019, p. 1931). The articles related to MCDA from 1996 to 2018 were retrieved from the Scopus database. The search was based on the keywords "Multi-criteria decision analysis" or "MCDA". 4. Analysis and findings 4.1 Major subject area coverage The present research shows a significant number of papers that cover various domains. The concept of sustainability or sustainable development has implications in various subject areas including engineering, physical sciences, social sciences, medical, IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 515 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 agricultural, etc. The highest numbers of papers have been published in the area of environmental science followed by social sciences and engineering, respectively (See Table 1). The domain areas of business, management and accounting, and energy also have a significant number of publications. It is worth mentioning that some of the studies may have been cross-listed in multiple disciplines resulting in the number of individual studies exceeding the total number of studies. Table 1 Subject area coverage with the number of publications Area (Related to Sustainability and MCDA) Number of Papers Environmental Science 400 Social Sciences 213 Engineering 209 Energy 192 Business, Management and Accounting 157 Agricultural and Biological Sciences 70 Computer Science 63 Decision Sciences 57 Economics, Econometrics and Finance 46 Earth and Planetary Sciences 30 Mathematics 20 Chemical Engineering 15 Materials Science 13 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 516 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Area (Related to Sustainability and MCDA) Number of Papers Multidisciplinary 11 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 Medicine 7 Chemistry 8 Arts and Humanities 5 Psychology 5 Physics and Astronomy 3 Immunology and Microbiology 1 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1 4.2 Publications by year As far as the evolution of sustainability (and/or sustainable development) is concerned, researchers began publishing papers in this area in 1996 (Kumar et al., 2013). Initially, there were very few publications (Figure 1). From 1996 to 2012, an up and down trend can be observed; however, this area saw stable growth from 2011 to 2014. Exponential growth in the number of publications can be seen after 2014 and surprisingly, a drop in number publications was seen in 2018. This may be due to a delay in updating publications on the Scopus database. It can be safely said that there has been significant growth in the number of publications in this field in the current decade. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 517 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 1 Yearly publication distribution 4.3 Publications by country This section provides a list of the number of publications by country and as many as 951 countries are represented as can be seen in Figure 2. Seventy-nine nationalities are represented (plus 7 undefined) in the 701 publications. As far as the affiliation of authors is concerned, India is the country that has published the most on sustainability using MCDA techniques with 95 publications, followed by China (89), the United States (83), and Iran (51). For example, the first article in this area (2005) was published in Energy by two authors, Ranjan K. Bose and G. Anandalingam, from India and the USA, respectively. This paper was on the topic of “Sustainable urban energy-environment management with multiple objectives.” This is an example of cross-country research that is very common in the area of sustainability since it is a global issue. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 518 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 2 Publications by country 4.4 Journal and citation trends Appendix 1 provides information about the various journals where sustainability-related work has been published using MCDA techniques. These journals belong to very diverse areas such as forestry, agriculture, energy, environment, ecology, transportation, operations research, waste management, wastewater, and many others. The journals, Sustainability (Switzerland), Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Energy, Energy Policy, and International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology have a large number of publications in the area of sustainability combined with the MCDA technique. However, the majority of the work has been published in core sustainability journals and researchers can target some core field journals. This is also evidence that the area under study is well accepted among journals from different subjects. Figure 3 shows the prominence of different journals based on the number of citations. The size of the circle indicates the number of citations each journal received from other journals. Similarly, the nodes represent the citation pattern among the journals. European Journal of Operation Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Expert System with Application are the journals that have been frequently cited by their counterpart journals. The journals Energy Policy, Energy, Omega, and Sustainability also look promising in terms of the number of citations. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 519 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 3 Journal citation trends 4.5 Author with the most publications Thomas L. Saaty is the most cited author in this field of the present area under the investigation. This is not surprising since Saaty developed the concept of the AHP. Figure 4 shows other authors with significant contributions in this field of research. Recently, Govindan, K. has become a prominent author in this area. As seen in Figure 4, other authors who have contributed significantly to the area under study include Sarkis, J., Zahed, L.A., Hwang, C.L., Zhu, Q., Kahraman, C., Seuring, S., Luthra, S., Singh, R.K., Mathiiyazhagan, K., Diabat, A., Awasthi, A., etc. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 520 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 4 Authors with the most publications 4.6 Most cited articles Among the 701 documents under consideration, the paper titled, “Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions” authored by Brandenburg et al. (2009) in the European Journal of Operational Research is the most cited document with a total of 307 citations. This is a review paper that focuses on the various quantitative models in the sustainable supply chain. Other papers that received more than 100 citations are shown in Table 2. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 521 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Table 2 Most cited articles Publication Year Document Title Journal No. of Citations 2014 Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions European Journal of Operational Research 307 2007 Environmental principles applicable to green supplier evaluation by using multi-objective decision analysis International Journal of Production Research 193 2007 Development of composite sustainability performance index for steel industry Ecological Indicators 177 2007 SAFE-A hierarchical framework for assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 157 2007 Key performance indicators and assessment methods for infrastructure sustainability-a South African construction industry perspective Building and Environment 141 2009 Technological, economic and sustainability evaluation of power plants using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Energy Policy 126 2008 Analysis of interactions among the barriers to energy saving in China Energy Policy 105 2011 Advancing integrated systems modelling framework for life cycle sustainability assessment Sustainability 104 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 522 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Publication Year Document Title Journal No. of Citations 2007 Developing a sustainability framework for the assessment of bioenergy systems Energy Policy 104 2000 Multicriterion analysis for sustainable water resources planning: A case study in Spain Water Resources Management 103 4.7 Most discussed keywords The keywords of an article represent the focus area of the particular research. This section discusses the top keywords used most frequently in articles in the area of sustainability using MCDA techniques. Other than sustainability and sustainable development, “decision making” was the most discussed keyword from 2003 to 2005 as depicted in Figure 5. Further, the term “mathematical model” was another most discussed keyword from 2006 to 2007. Most of the keywords are related to decision making or MCDA techniques. The citation burst revealed key words that increased significantly over a period of time (Figure 5). Keywords in the article in the combined file of articles were analyzed for their burstiness. The time interval is shown in blue and the timeline in which the keyword observed burstiness is shown in red. The red line shows the beginning and end of the burst. For example, the keyword ‘decision making’ started in 2003 and ended in 2005 with a burst strength of 4.7058. Hot keywords before 2007 belong to decision sciences, conservation of natural resources, and the geographical area of Asia and Eurasia. The term multi-criteria decision analysis first burst in 2009. Similarly, it can be observed that time-specific MCDM techniques, such as TOPSIS, started appearing in citation bursts in 2016. The five most used keywords in the time zone view are shown in Figure 6. The keywords that were used the most in each year can be easily identified. For example, “multiple criteria decision support system” was used most in the year 2007 and it was again used prominently to search papers between 2007 and 2009. Moreover, this keyword was used quite considerably in 2010. In later years, this particular keyword has been used quite less than other keywords. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 523 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 6 Top five keywords during different time zones 4.8 Clusters The present study identified five thematic clusters with the help of the CiteSpace tool. The labeling of clusters and assignment of a particular number to clusters was done by CiteSpace only, which is not always in exact chronological order. According to Chen (2014), eligible clusters should have ten or more members in each cluster with a Silhouette value > 0.70. Silhouette values range from -1 to 1 and measure the quality of the configuration in clusters and the maximum value represents a complete solution (Jiang et. al, 2019). In the present study, four eligible clusters were identified according to the above-mentioned criteria. The authors have attempted to present and explain the summary of the four thematic clusters created by CiteSpace. IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 524 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Figure 7 Cluster analysis using CiteSpace Cluster 1: The biggest cluster (#0) has 49 members with a silhouette value of 0.89 and is categorized as the 'sustainable wireless sensor network'. The main keywords appearing in this cluster are composite sustainability performance index, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, fuzzy multi-objective linear programming model, sustainable supply chain, and sustainable wireless sensor network. The most active citer to the cluster is Srie (2015) who contributed 0.5111 in the total silhouette value of this cluster. Cluster 2: The second largest cluster (#1) has 41 members with a silhouette value of 0.923. and is categorized as the 'sustainability driver'. The main keywords that appear in this cluster are interpretive structural modeling technique, composite sustainability performance index, sustainability framework, sustainable manufacturing, and sustainable supplier selection. The most active citer to the cluster is (0.4441) Mehregan (2014). Cluster 3: The third largest cluster (#2) has 38 members with a silhouette value of 0.945 and is categorized as a life cycle sustainability assessment. The main keywords that appeared in this cluster are sustainable development planning, disposal scenario, resources approach, intelligent transport system, and fuzzy AHP approach. The most active citer to the cluster is (0.13171) Foolmaun (2013). Cluster 4: The fourth largest cluster (#3) has 26 members and a silhouette value of 0.949. It is labeled as supplier selection. The main keywords that appeared in this cluster are sustainability view, order allocation, construction method selection, environmental strategic orientation, and sustainability supplier selection criteria. The most active citer to the cluster is (0.3871) Badri (2017). IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 525 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 5. Discussion and conclusion The present literature review considered 701 documents for software-based analysis. This review paper first identified the trends of publication in the area of ‘sustainability with MCDA’. Several forms of analysis were used to understand the patterns in the area of sustainability with MCDA. The findings of the study suggest that there has been substantial growth in the number of publications in this area. However, some areas like arts and humanities, chemical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy, psychology, mathematics, immunology, and microbiology still need to be explored in terms of the application of MCDA in the field of sustainability. Further, areas like management science, earth and planetary science, ecology, climate change, economics, and accounting and finance are also underexplored and can be considered for future research. Future studies may also look at interdisciplinary and cross-country based studies. The area of MCDA and sustainability is well regarded by journals and has seen a wide variety of publications. As far as journals related to the area under study are concerned, Sustainability (Switzerland) and Journal of Cleaner Production are the top two journals with 69 and 45 articles, respectively. Journal publishing trends will help readers identify journals where similar material can be found or published. Moreover, the list of the top 10 most cited articles is provided to understand the paper’s contribution. The prominence of journals and authors in terms of their citations and publications will help budding researchers understand the importance of MCDA in sustainability and craft their research direction in a better way. The segregation of sustainability and MCDA into different clusters helps beginning researchers develop a better understanding of the field. This research paper is a bibliographic source for the area of sustainability using MCDA techniques. Though search results provided publications from diverse fields, it also demonstrates the applicability of MCDA techniques in several areas of decision-making. This study has contributed to the literature by identifying research papers in the area of sustainability and the MCDA technique. This present study has a few limitations. The authors only used two keywords, “MCDA” and “Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis”. 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decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 537 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Journal Name Number of Publications International Journal of Production Research 6 International Journal of Sustainable Engineering 6 Marine Policy 6 Sustainable Cities and Society 6 Water Resources Management 6 Benchmarking 5 Business Strategy and the Environment 5 Energies 5 Environmental Management 5 Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management 5 Land Use Policy 5 Biomass and Bioenergy 4 Cities 4 Ecological Economics 4 Environment Development and Sustainability 4 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 4 Environmental Science and Policy 4 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 538 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Journal Name Number of Publications European Journal of Operational Research 4 Expert Systems with Applications 4 International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 4 International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 4 Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 4 Journal of Modelling in Management 4 Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal 4 Transport 4 Transportation Research (Part D)- Transport And Environment 4 Applied Energy 3 Applied Mathematical Modelling 3 Applied Soft Computing Journal 3 Automation in Construction 3 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 3 Industrial Management and Data Systems 3 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 3 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 3 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 539 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Journal Name Number of Publications Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 3 Journal of Infrastructure Systems 3 Journal of the Operational Research Society 3 Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3 Ocean and Coastal Management 3 Production Planning and Control 3 Progress in Industrial Ecology 3 Sustainability 3 Sustainable Production and Consumption 3 Technological Forecasting and Social Change 3 Applied Sciences Switzerland 2 Aquaculture International 2 Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2 Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering 2 Business Process Management Journal 2 Chemical Engineering Transactions 2 Competitiveness Review 2 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 540 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Journal Name Number of Publications Computers and Industrial Engineering 2 Construction and Building Materials 2 Desalination 2 Energy and Buildings 2 Environmental Earth Sciences 2 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2 Forest Ecology and Management 2 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 2 International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences 2 International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 2 International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management 2 International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking 2 International Journal of Procurement Management 2 International Journal of Strategic Property Management 2 International Journal of Sustainable Society 2 International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2 Journal of Air Transport Management 2 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 541 Vol. 12 Issue 3 2020 ISSN 1936-6744 https://doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v12i3.720 Journal Name Number of Publications Journal of Environmental Studies 2 Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 2 Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2 Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2 Journal of Urban Planning and Development 2 Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology Aqua 2 Management Research Review 2 Nature Environment and Pollution Technology 2 Omega United Kingdom 2 Procedia Manufacturing 2 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2 Shengtai Xuebao Acta Ecologica Sinica 2 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 2 Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 2 Technological and Economic Development Of Economy 2 Uncertain Supply Chain Management 2 Waste Management and Research 2 IJAHP Article: Goyal P., Kumar D., Kumar V./Application of multi-criteria decision analysis in the area of sustainability: a literature review 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