A Study on the Application of Coordinated TOPSIS in Evaluation of Robotics Academic Journals

Abstract

While TOPSIS is a widely used evaluation method, it lacks evaluation from the perspective of indicator coordination. Based on the analysis of TOPSIS evaluation methods, this paper proposes a new assessment method, coordinated TOPSIS, which takes into account the advantages of TOPSIS evaluation methods and the coordination level of evaluation indicators. Taking the robotics academic journals as an example, the TOPSIS evaluation and the coordinated TOPSIS evaluation results are compared. The research shows that the weights of the coordinated TOPSIS method can be manually adjusted according to the purpose of evaluation and have a good flexibility; the TOPSIS evaluation results and coordinated TOPSIS evaluation results have a high degree of correlation, but the difference from the perspective of the ranking is big; the coordinated TOPSIS is very suitable for evaluation field that needs to consider the coordinated development, and it can be replicated.

A Novel Coordinated TOPSIS Based on Coefficient of Variation

“…To void this problem, the absolute IS and the absolute NIS should be used [15]. Considering that TOPSIS lacks evaluation from the perspective of attribute coordination, Yu et al (2018) proposed coordinated TOPSIS, which takes into account the coordination level of attributes [16].…”

“…Mathematics 2019, 7, 614 2 of 17 TOPSIS is a type of multi-attribute decision-making method, in which complementarity exists among attributes. When some attributes are inferior, they can be complemented by the other superior attributes in the decision results [16]. However, in some decision or evaluation problems, the coordination or balance of attributes is very important to be considered, such as evaluation of information system [17], decision of real estate location [18], and evaluation of academic journals [16].…”

“…When some attributes are inferior, they can be complemented by the other superior attributes in the decision results [16]. However, in some decision or evaluation problems, the coordination or balance of attributes is very important to be considered, such as evaluation of information system [17], decision of real estate location [18], and evaluation of academic journals [16]. In these cases, the coordination level of attributes should be taken into account when using TOPSIS.…”

“…Coordinated TOPSIS is a significant improvement of TOPSIS. It is very suitable for the decision or evaluation fields that need to consider the coordination level of attributes [16]. However, according to the principles of coordinated TOPSIS [16], it is found that this method has some limitations and problems that affect its applicability.…”

“…It is very suitable for the decision or evaluation fields that need to consider the coordination level of attributes [16]. However, according to the principles of coordinated TOPSIS [16], it is found that this method has some limitations and problems that affect its applicability. In this study, the problems of the existing coordinated TOPSIS are explained and revised, and a novel coordinated TOPSIS based on coefficient of variation is proposed to avoid the limitations.…”