The phrase "are useful in identifying" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the effectiveness or utility of certain tools, methods, or information in recognizing or determining something.
Example: "These criteria are useful in identifying potential candidates for the job."
Alternatives: "helpful in recognizing" or "valuable for determining".
Behavioral models of service use are useful in identifying predictors of medical care and to assess whether health service use is equitably distributed.
The narrow bands established to monitor the fundamental and other harmonics of actual running speed are useful in identifying mechanical imbalance, but other indices also should be used.
The experimental and thermodynamic calculation methods are useful in identifying conditions suitable for the successful use of high sodium coal during fluidized bed gasification.
First, this study shows that these techniques are useful in identifying locations, defects, and failure intensities of infrastructure using the location metadata from geotags, words containing the locations, and the frequencies of tweets from each location.
Although well-child healthcare visits are useful in identifying health issues early, there has been limited investigation in the use of these services for families from refugee backgrounds.
Indicators are useful in identifying trends and drawing attention to particular issues.
Therefore, GRA and NGR data reflect sea-level changes and are useful in identifying marine isotope stages.
It is shown that influence and sensitivity are useful in identifying designs that lead to imperfection tolerant structures.
The spectrum of Li4V3O8 is also reported and discussed; these data are useful in identifying the effects of lithium intercalation on the vibrational spectrum of Li1.1V3O8.
The different behaviors between Rb and Sr are useful in identifying material provenance and indicating the intensity of chemical weathering [1, 3].
The graphical representations of facies are useful in identifying chemical processes and detecting the effects of mixing water within different lithological framework (Todd 1980).
