“…In most of the studies, the VIKOR method has been used alongside the TOPSIS method or in conjunction with other MCDM methods (Bahadori et al, 2020;Kuo et al, 2015;Uslu, 2021). Numerous studies have also examined banks' financial performance using the VIKOR method (Ertuğrul and Karakaşaoğlu, 2009;Tezergil, 2016;Wu et al, 2018;Yetiz and Kılıç, 2021). Additionally, the successful application of the method has been observed in evaluating and selecting countries (İnam and Murat, 2023;Kaya et al, 2011;Paksoy, 2015), personnel (Yıldız and Deveci, 2013;Öztürk and Kaya, 2020), as well as in performance assessment and selection problems concerning suppliers (Sanayei et al, 2010;Shemshadi et al, 2011).…”