David Romero

8.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
134 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

David Romero is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, David Romero has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 48 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 34 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in David Romero's work include Digital Transformation in Industry (47 papers), Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (31 papers) and Collaboration in agile enterprises (24 papers). David Romero is often cited by papers focused on Digital Transformation in Industry (47 papers), Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (31 papers) and Collaboration in agile enterprises (24 papers). David Romero collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Italy. David Romero's co-authors include Thorsten Wuest, Sameer Mittal, Muztoba Ahmad Khan, Arturo Molina, Johan Stahre, François Vernadat, Marco Taisch, Ricardo Jardim‐Gonçalves, Sergio Cavalieri and Ana Pinto and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

David Romero

124 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A critical review of smart manufacturing & Industry 4.0 maturity models: Implications for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

2018 691 citations David Romero, Thorsten Wuest et al. Journal of Manufacturing Systems profile →
Smart manufacturing: Characteristics, technologies and enabling factors

2017 357 citations David Romero, Thorsten Wuest et al. profile →
Towards The Resilient Operator 5.0: The Future of Work in Smart Resilient Manufacturing Systems

2021 179 citations David Romero, Johan Stahre profile →
Current development on the Operator 4.0 and transition towards the Operator 5.0: A systematic literature review in light of Industry 5.0

2023 98 citations Bartłomiej Gładysz, Tuan-anh Tran et al. Journal of Manufacturing Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Romero Mexico	28	2.3k	956	879	679	538	134	4.0k
Thorsten Wuest United States	31	3.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.1×	957 1.1×	653 1.0×	469 0.9×	121	6.1k
Marco Taisch Italy	29	1.9k 0.8×	690 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	372 0.5×	797 1.5×	172	4.3k
Lucas Santos Dalenogare France	5	2.3k 1.0×	1000 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	378 0.6×	390 0.7×	6	3.3k
Günther Schuh Germany	26	3.6k 1.6×	990 1.0×	889 1.0×	1.7k 2.5×	358 0.7×	581	5.5k
Ting Qu China	39	3.0k 1.3×	867 0.9×	1.4k 1.6×	414 0.6×	536 1.0×	188	5.6k
H.C.W. Lau Hong Kong	41	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	1.8k 2.1×	748 1.1×	371 0.7×	202	5.9k
Dimitris Kiritsis Switzerland	36	2.9k 1.3×	863 0.9×	865 1.0×	641 0.9×	305 0.6×	179	5.1k
Erwin Rauch Italy	36	2.3k 1.0×	753 0.8×	770 0.9×	498 0.7×	158 0.3×	160	3.9k
Eleonora Bottani Italy	34	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	538 0.8×	309 0.6×	193	4.5k
Essam Shehab United Kingdom	32	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	793 1.2×	640 1.2×	171	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by David Romero

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Romero

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pezzotta, Giuditta, David Romero, Federico Adrodegari, et al.. (2025). Digital servitization business typologies in the manufacturing sector. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management. 16(1). 1–23. 1 indexed citations

Antony, Jiju, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, David Romero, et al.. (2025). A qualitative global study on the digitalization of Lean Six Sigma: insights from scholars and practitioners. Production Planning & Control. 37(4). 334–364.

Garay-Rondero, Claudia Lizette, et al.. (2025). A reference framework for Supplier 4.0 development programs: a Delphi study. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. 29(3). 343–374.

Emmanouilidis, Christos, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Giacomo Barbieri, & David Romero. (2024). Special issue on: “Emerging industrial Digitalisation and machine learning applications in maintenance engineering, asset, and operations management”. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 141. 109752–109752.

Tortorella, Guilherme Luz, Jiju Antony, Michael Sony, et al.. (2024). Why are research and practice on operational excellence still far apart? Ecological knowledge management view. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence. 35(5-6). 606–630. 3 indexed citations

Garay-Rondero, Claudia Lizette, et al.. (2024). Suppliers 4.0 digital capabilities development in support of digital supply chains: a scoping review. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. 28(12). 1691–1718. 2 indexed citations

Romero, David, et al.. (2023). A cost-benefit analysis for a wire harness assembly workstation: Manual vs. collaborative workstation. Manufacturing Letters. 38. 65–68.

Gładysz, Bartłomiej, et al.. (2023). Current development on the Operator 4.0 and transition towards the Operator 5.0: A systematic literature review in light of Industry 5.0. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 70. 160–185. 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Cimini, Chiara, David Romero, Roberto Pinto, & Sergio Cavalieri. (2023). Task Classification Framework and Job-Task Analysis Method for Understanding the Impact of Smart and Digital Technologies on the Operators 4.0 Job Profiles. Sustainability. 15(5). 3899–3899. 8 indexed citations

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Rabelo, Ricardo J., et al.. (2023). Softbots 4.0: Supporting Cyber-Physical Social Systems in Smart Production Management. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management. 14(1). 63–94. 7 indexed citations

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Larsson, Lisa & David Romero. (2023). A Conceptual Framework for Production Innovation: Expanding and Creating New Production Capabilities. Management and Production Engineering Review. 3–17.

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Danys, Lukáš, Iveta Zolotová, David Romero, et al.. (2022). Visible Light Communication and localization: A study on tracking solutions for Industry 4.0 and the Operator 4.0. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 64. 535–545. 22 indexed citations

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Romero, David, et al.. (2022). Wire Harness Assembly Process Supported by Collaborative Robots: Literature Review and Call for R&D. Robotics. 11(3). 65–65. 22 indexed citations

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Dolgui, Alexandre, et al.. (2021). Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems. IFIP advances in information and communication technology. 19 indexed citations

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Simões, Ana Correia, et al.. (2021). Designing human-robot collaboration (HRC) workspaces in industrial settings: A systematic literature review. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 62. 28–43. 124 indexed citations

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Romero, David, et al.. (2020). Systemic preconditions and ontological modeling for peri-urban communities. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. 11(3). 201–213. 5 indexed citations

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Medini, Khaled, et al.. (2020). Ramping Up Customer-Centric Modular Design Projects: Mobile App Development for Pandemic Relief. Systems. 8(4). 40–40. 3 indexed citations

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Romero, David, Ricardo Jardim‐Gonçalves, & António Grilo. (2017). Factories of the future: challenges and leading innovations in intelligent manufacturing. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 30(1). 1–3. 60 indexed citations

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Bernus, Péter, H. T. Goranson, John Gøtze, et al.. (2015). Enterprise engineering and management at the crossroads. Computers in Industry. 79. 87–102. 33 indexed citations

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Galeano, Nathalíe, et al.. (2007). Software Architecture Implementation of an e-HUB to offer e-Services for SMEs. Research in computing science. 31. 193–202. 2 indexed citations

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