Bibliometric Study on Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Applied to the Selection of Operational Means in a Military Environment

Complex environments, conflicting criteria, uncertainties, and inaccurate information are common in many real-world decision problems. The Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methodology plays a significant role in making decision-making processes more rational, efficient, and effective. In the military sphere, the Armed Forces of several countries have used MCDA methods to select operational means—means of transportation—that the Armed Forces have to carry out operations on the battlefield or in various operational scenarios, contributing to a more robust and informed approach to decision-making. This article aims to present a review of the literature on the main applications of MCDA in the selection of operative means. The methodology includes a bibliometric study and a bibliographic review of documents from the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The bibliometric study identified the types of documents, year of publication, H and G indexes of the most relevant journals and authors, authors’ publications, affiliation, clusters of keywords, area of knowledge, country, and main applications of the MCDA Methods in this area of research. Through this methodology, it was possible to identify that the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the most applied MCDA method in the research area.