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Firstly, the multiplicative consistent q-ROFPRs (MCq-ROFPRs) and the normalized q-rung orthopair fuzzy priority weight vectors (q-ROFPWVs) are introduced. Then, to obtain q-ROFPWVs, a goal programming model under q-ROFPRs is established to minimize their deviation from the MCq-ROFPRs and minimize the weight uncertainty. Further, a group goal programming model of ideal MCq-ROFPRs is constructed to obtain the expert weights using the compatibility measure between the ideal MCq-ROFPRs and the individual q-ROFPRs. Finally, a GDM method with unknown expert weights is solved by combining the group goal programming model and the simple q-rung orthopair fuzzy weighted geometric (Sq-ROFWG) operator. The effectiveness and practicality of the proposed GDM method are verified by solving the crucial factors in crowdsourcing task recommendation. The results show that the developed GDM method effectively considers the important measures of experts and identifies the crucial factors that are more reliable than two other methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms12121122","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,15]],"date-time":"2023-12-15T03:16:33Z","timestamp":1702610193000},"page":"1122","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Multiplicative Consistent q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Preference Relations with Application to Critical Factor Analysis in Crowdsourcing Task Recommendation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2366-3264","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xicheng","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4888-4023","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenyu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101337","DOI":"10.1016\/j.techsoc.2020.101337","article-title":"Task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems: A bibliometric analysis","volume":"63","author":"Yin","year":"2020","journal-title":"Technol. 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