Weights and importance in composite indicators: Closing the gap

By W. Becker, Michaela Saisana, Paolo Paruolo, I. Vandecasteele. Ecological Indicators, 2017

432 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Highlights • Composite indicators are widely used in sustainable development and elsewhere.• The effect of weights used in aggregating indicators is complex.• Three tools are presented which help developers and users to investigate effects of weights.• Case studies related to sustainable development demonstrate the benefits.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ocean Engineering

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In Economics and Econometrics

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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2. Salvatore Greco
3. Alessio Ishizaka
4. Marco Cinelli

Citations in the corpus

• Proposal of a Sustainable Circular Index for Manufacturing Companies (2017, neutral): “, the economy, environment, and knowledge/information/innovation [13,14].”
• Stochastic multi-attribute acceptability analysis (SMAA): an application to the ranking of Italian regions (2018, background): “In recent years, composite indicators are witnessed as increasingly popular tools for evaluating the performance of units such as countries and institutions (Becker et al., 2017).”
• How to support the application of multiple criteria decision analysis? Let us start with a comprehensive taxonomy (2020, background): “Interactions between criteria should be a key avenue of further focus, because of the recurrent recognition of the need to account for the interrelations and dependencies between criteria [11,60].”