PMID- 35390100 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220414 LR - 20220621 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 4 DP - 2022 TI - A social network analysis in dynamic evaluate critical industries based on input-output data of China. PG - e0266697 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0266697 [doi] LID - e0266697 AB - As the Chinese economy grows, the imbalance of industrial structure is prominent, and the optimization of industrial structure has become an urgent problem. Evaluation of industry is an important step in industry optimization. To this end, this study proposes an integrated evaluation method combining social network analysis (SNA) and the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method. Specifically, SNA method are used to calculate indicators, the measurement weights are calculated by the Entropy Weight (EW) Method, and the rank of each industry is determined by the TOPSIS method. Critical industries are identified based on China's input-output data from 2002 to 2017. The results indicate that Manufacturing Industry and the Metal products have a high evaluation, but the Research and Development have a low evaluation value at all times. According to the results, we suggest that the government should optimize the allocation of resources and promote the transfer of resources to balance industrial development. FAU - Wang, Can AU - Wang C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8493-9258 AD - School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China. FAU - Yang, Huipeng AU - Yang H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1141-309X AD - School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220407 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 SB - IM MH - China MH - Entropy MH - *Industry MH - Manufacturing Industry MH - *Social Network Analysis PMC - PMC8989312 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2022/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/15 06:00 PMCR- 2022/04/07 CRDT- 2022/04/07 17:14 PHST- 2022/01/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/03/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/07 17:14 [entrez] PHST- 2022/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/04/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-22-00330 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0266697 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2022 Apr 7;17(4):e0266697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266697. eCollection 2022.