The phrase "a key criterion in" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used when discussing the main factors or standards that are taken into consideration when making a decision or evaluation. Example: "Time management is a key criterion in determining an employee's success in a high-pressure work environment."
A key criterion in determining the merit of a particular set of options is how seriously the group takes the most extreme projected impacts of climate change.
As urban green spaces are important for residential satisfaction, human preferences are a key criterion in their design.
Process modularity in terms of mass customized manufacturing is considered as a key criterion in designing process architecture.
High prevalence of a health state in daily practice has historically been a key criterion in selecting a subset of health states as the observed set.
The mass of the carbon residues – a key criterion in selecting a formulation – was below 150 ppm for all six formulations, which is still sufficient for obtaining net-shaped pellets following the sintering process.
Introducing the global optimisation of trench migration characteristics as a key criterion in the construction of APM models forms the foundation of a new method of constraining APMs (and in particular paleolongitude) in deep geological time.
"Political hot spots have become a key criteria in the selection of acquisition targeting," said Steve Ridge, the president of the media strategy group at Frank N. Magid Associates, an adviser to local stations.
To my mind a key criterion, bearing in mind John Harrison's tribulations, is to make sure we know what winning looks like in each case, so that it is obvious when a satisfactory solution has been found.
The church is nonetheless a largely faithful 20th-century reconstruction – as opposed to renovation (a key criterion for inclusion in the World Heritage Site group) – of the second Jesuit templo built in 1761.
A key criterion for success in any protocol is the ability to demonstrate high performance and high safety across patient types, time, clinical practice culture and clinical resources.
For the new DSM-5[ 17] 17], "identity" has been discussed extensively to be integrated as a key criterion for diagnosing personality disorders in general, in terms of reflecting one core impairment in self-related personality functioning in a dimensional way (see also Schmeck et al. in this issue).
