Purpose: Multicriteria methods have gained traction in both academia and industry practices for effective decision-making over the years. This bibliometric study aims to explore and provide an overview of research carried out on multicriteria methods, in its various aspects, over the past forty-four years. Design/Methodology/Approach: The Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases were searched for publications from January 1945 to April 29, 2021, on multicriteria methods in titles, abstracts, and keywords. The bibliographic data were analyzed using the R bibliometrix package. Findings: This bibliometric study asserts that 29,050 authors have produced 20,861 documents on the theme of multicriteria methods in 131 countries in the last forty-four years. Scientific production in this area grows at a rate of 13.88 per year. China is the leading country in publications with 14.14%; India with 10.76%; and Iran with 8.09%. Islamic Azad University leads others with 504 publications, followed by the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University with 456 and the National Institute of Technology with 336. As for journals, Expert Systems With Applications; Sustainability; and Journal of Cleaner Production are the leading journals, which account for more than 4.67% of all indexed literature. Furthermore, Zavadskas E. and Wang J have the highest publications in the multicriteria methods domain regarding the authors. Regarding the most commonly used multicriteria decision-making methods, AHP is the most favored approach among the ten countries with the most publications in this research area, followed by TOPSIS, VIKOR, PROMETHEE, and ANP. Practical implications: The bibliometric literature review method allows the researchers to explore the multicriteria research area more extensively than the traditional literature review method. It enables a large dataset of bibliographic records to be systematically analyzed through statistical measures, yielding informative insights. Originality/value: The usefulness of this bibliometric study is summed in presenting an overview of the topic of the multicriteria methods during the previous forty-four years, allowing other academics to use this research as a starting point for their research.

ABSTRACT How to measure the perceived influence of a course on its alumni skills? This paper describes the use of CPP-TRI as a tool to face this problem. The method was applied here in the context of a M.Sc. course evaluation. Levels of impact and importance previously determined for different features provide the framework for the analysis. Classifications by different groups of evaluators are combined. Taking into account the subjectivity in the assessments, CPP-TRI treats them as realizations of random variables. The combination of the evaluations is performed by computing joint probabilities, what avoids the assignment of weights to evaluators. Interval classifications between a hostile and a benevolent limit are provided offerings the educational evaluator a deeper understanding of the results. An additional study is here performed on the classification of the features. A total of sixteen features are sorted.

A utilização de métodos multicritério no planejamento e gestão da indústria de petróleo e gás tem sido estudada por alguns autores. No entanto, esses estudos encontram-se distribuídos de forma dispersa na literatura, o que torna difícil uma visão panorâmica a respeito do tema. Objetivando fornecer uma visão sistemática sobre esse assunto, este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre as publicações no âmbito da aplicação de métodos multicritério ao planejamento e gestão da indústria de petróleo e gás. Foram analisados 48 artigos, selecionados através de uma pesquisa sistemática efetuada nas bases Scopus e ISI (Web of Knowledge). Dentre os resultados do estudo, destaca-se que o método multicritério AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) foi o mais utilizado. Outro resultado de destaque é que a maioria das aplicações estavam relacionados a: petróleo, atividades de midstream e instalações onshore.

The application of multicriteria methods in the planning and management of the oil and gas industry has been studied by various authors. However, these studies are distributed in a scattered manner in the literature, which creates difficulties in obtaining an overview. To provide a systematic view on this matter, this paper presents a bibliographical mapping of papers that approach the use of multicriteria methods for planning and management in the oil and gas industry. The reviewed documents were selected through a search in the Scopus and ISI (Web of Knowledge) databases. Among the study results, it is found that the most commonly used multicriteria method was AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). Furthermore, it is observed that the majority of multicriteria method applications are related to oil, midstream activities and onshore facilities.