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RETRACTED: Multi-criteria analysis of social isolation barriers amid COVID-19 using fuzzy AHP

Hemant Kumar Upadhyay (B.M. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sonipat, India)
Sapna Juneja (IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India)
Sunil Maggu (Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Grima Dhingra (MDU, Rohtak, India)
Abhinav Juneja (KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India)

World Journal of Engineering

ISSN: 1708-5284

Article publication date: 9 July 2021

Issue publication date: 15 March 2022

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This article was retracted on 2 Jul 2024.

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The publishers of World Journal of Engineering wish to retract the article Upadhyay, H.K., Juneja, S., Maggu, S., Dhingra, G. and Juneja, A. (2022), “Multi-criteria analysis of social isolation barriers amid COVID-19 using fuzzy AHP”, World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJE-04-2021-0195

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of current analytical work is to identify the critical barriers in social isolation in India amid Coronavirus infection disease (COVID) outbreak using the fuzzy-analytical hierarchical process (AHP) method.

Design/methodology/approach

The conventional AHP is insufficient for tackling the vague nature of linguistic assessment. Fuzzy AHP had been developed to resolve the hierarchical fuzzy problems, avoiding its risks on performance. In AHP, all comparisons are not included; thus, to find the priority of one decision variable over other, triangular fuzzy numbers are used.

Findings

A total of eight critical barriers in social distancing in India during COVID-19 have been compared and ranked. Dense population has emerged as the most culpable barrier in social isolation in India amid COVID outbreak followed by compulsion for pecuniary earning and general incautiousness. A total of eight critical barriers in social distancing in India during COVID-19 in four categories (societal barriers, insufficient facilitation barriers, growth-related barriers and population related barriers) have been compared and ranked.

Originality/value

On the basis of the numeral values, “growth-related barriers” attained top position followed by “population-related barriers” and “insufficient facilitation barriers.” The current work has explored the possible factors which can become key game changers to control the pace of spread of the pandemic.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank various researchers and contributors whose research has been a vital source of inspiration for their current work.

Citation

Upadhyay, H.K., Juneja, S., Maggu, S., Dhingra, G. and Juneja, A. (2022), "RETRACTED: Multi-criteria analysis of social isolation barriers amid COVID-19 using fuzzy AHP", World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJE-04-2021-0195

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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