Single-Valued Neutrosophic DEMATEL for Segregating Types of Criteria: A Case of Subcontractors’ Selection

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Summary of related researches and research gaps.

Authors	Type of NS	Method DEMATEL	Application	Research gap
Nabeeh [29]	Neutrosophic sets	DEMATEL method and data envelopment analysis	Technology selection process	Did not consider SVNS
				-No quadrant analysis
Abdel-Basset et al. [30]	Trapezoidal neutrosophic number	Integration of DEMATEL and TOPSIS	Project selection	An integration method
				No quadrant analysis
Awang et al. [31]	Left–right neutrosophic numbers	Multiplicative inverse of decision matrix in DEMATEL	Coastal erosion	-Focused on improving inverse matrix
				No quadrant analysis
Tan and Zhang [32]	Trapezoidal fuzzy neutrosophic	DEMATEL, fuzzy distance, and linear assignment method	Typhoon disaster evaluation	Many other methods were integrated to DEMATEL
				Did not consider SVNS
				No quadrant analysis
Tian et al [33]	Single-valued neutrosophic sets	DEMATEL with quality function deployment TODIM	Market segment evaluation and selection	-An integration of DEMATEL with two other methods
				No quadrant analysis
Feng et al. [34]	Neutrosophic sets	DEMATEL with VIKOR, TOPSIS, and ELECTRE III	Photovoltaic plan selection	An integration of DEMATEL with three other methods
				No quadrant analysis