Abstarct: The paper presents the analysis, characterizations and comparison on six commonly used scalar-ization methods in multiobjective optimization. The properties of these methods are investigated with respect to the basic characteristics such as ordering cone, convexity and boundedness, the ability of generating proper efficient solutions, the ability to consider reference points which is a choice of decision maker as a solution and weighting preferences of decision maker, the number of additional constraints and decision variables.The paper also presents newcharacteristics for these methods and relations between them. The main characteristics of these scalarization methods are illustrated a test example.