A Dynamic Approach to Measuring China’s Provincial Energy Supply Security along “the Belt and Road”

Table 1

Comparison between previous studies and present study.

No.	Source	Themes	Dimension	No. of countries	Time frame	No. of indicators	Assessment method			Provide rank
							Normalization	Weighting	Model
1	Coq C L [7]	Energy supply security	Oil, Gas, Coal	24	1	3	—	—	Aggregation	√
2	Sovacool B K [8]	Energy security, Energy supply	Availability, Affordability, Technology development, Sustainability and regulation	10	5	20	—	—	Subjective scoring	√
3	Ang B W [11]	Energy security, Energy supply	Economic, Energy supply chain, Environment	1	5	22	—	Subjective Weight	Aggregation	√
4	XueJingjing [15]	Energy supply security	Availability, Affordability, Efficiency, Technology	1	12	13	Min-Max	Entropy method	Set Pair Analysis	√
5	Geng J B [16]	Energy supply security	Availability, Affordability, Energy technologies and energy efficiency, Energy resource reserves	1	8	7	Min-Max	—	Aggregation	√
6	Lucas J N V [17]	Energy security, Energy supply	Energy supply, Environment	22	1	12	—	—	Econometrics	—
7	Erahman Q F [18]	Energy security	Availability, Affordability, Accessibility, Acceptability and efficiency.	71	6	14	Min-Max	PCA	Aggregation	√
8	WuChuguo [19]	Energy security, Energy supply	Energy supply, International market, Environment	1	21	10	—	combined weight	Aggregation	—
9	Malavika [20]	Energy security, Energy supply	Security of energy supply, Climate change, Energy efficiency, Research and innovation of new energy technologies, Self-sufficiency and trade.	1	—	16	—	—	Questionnaire survey	√
10	ZhangJinsuo [24]	Coal security	Safe, Green and Efficient.	—	—	22	Min-Max	AHP	Aggregation	√
11	Ren J [25]	Energy security	Availability, Accessibility, Affordability, Acceptability	1	1	24	—	—	Fuzzy DEMATEL	—
12	Narula [28]	Energy security, Energy supply	Availability, Affordability, Acceptability, Efficiency	1	3	16	Min-Max	Subjective Weight	Multi-objective decision model	—
13	Vivoda V [13]	Energy security, Energy supply	Energy supply, Demand management, Efficiency, Economy, Technology, and so forth.	10	1	44	—	—	—	—
14	Hippel D V [29]	Energy security, Energy supply	Security of supply, Economy	1	—	29	—	—	Forum discussion	—
15	Sovacool B K [30]	Energy security, Energy supply	Availability, Affordability, Technology development, Sustainability	1	—	320	—	—	Questionnaire survey, Literature review	—
16	Li Y [31]	Energy security	Vulnerability, Efficiency, Sustainability	4	13	9	—	Equal weight	Aggregation	√
17	Cohen G [21]	Energy security, Energy supply	Diversification	27	—	—	—	—	Aggregation	√
18	Brown M A [32]	Energy security, Energy supply	Availability, Affordability, Efficiency, Environment	22	40	10	—	—	Aggregation	—