Roberto Sala

421 total citations
31 papers, 211 citations indexed

About

Roberto Sala is a scholar working on Marketing, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Sala has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 211 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Marketing, 12 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 11 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Roberto Sala's work include Service and Product Innovation (18 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (9 papers) and Quality and Supply Management (4 papers). Roberto Sala is often cited by papers focused on Service and Product Innovation (18 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (9 papers) and Quality and Supply Management (4 papers). Roberto Sala collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Hong Kong. Roberto Sala's co-authors include Giuditta Pezzotta, Fabiana Pirola, Sergio Terzi, Claudio Sassanelli, Mónica Rossi, Sophia Fotia, Dimitris Mourtzis, Sergio Cavalieri, Angelo Corallo and Roberto Pinto and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Computers & Industrial Engineering and Applied Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Sala

29 papers receiving 206 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto Sala Italy 9 110 76 62 47 30 31 211
Soumitra Chowdhury Sweden 9 93 0.8× 58 0.8× 43 0.7× 52 1.1× 33 1.1× 16 246
Johannes Matschewsky Sweden 8 220 2.0× 68 0.9× 109 1.8× 119 2.5× 23 0.8× 24 295
Eric Schweitzer Germany 6 220 2.0× 44 0.6× 144 2.3× 74 1.6× 39 1.3× 9 305
Marion Steven Germany 6 73 0.7× 52 0.7× 44 0.7× 74 1.6× 45 1.5× 40 197
Detlef Matzen Denmark 6 222 2.0× 47 0.6× 131 2.1× 64 1.4× 29 1.0× 10 270
Philipp Jussen Germany 6 95 0.9× 100 1.3× 36 0.6× 34 0.7× 24 0.8× 15 198
A.A. Alblas Netherlands 10 92 0.8× 61 0.8× 92 1.5× 155 3.3× 40 1.3× 22 290
Alice Rondini Italy 11 279 2.5× 111 1.5× 155 2.5× 90 1.9× 53 1.8× 22 400
Malte Reißig Germany 2 40 0.4× 197 2.6× 44 0.7× 129 2.7× 44 1.5× 4 313
Jürgen Anke Germany 8 56 0.5× 29 0.4× 22 0.4× 39 0.8× 26 0.9× 28 172

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Sala

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Sala

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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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
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Sala, Roberto, Emmanuel Francalanza, & Simone Arena. (2025). A review on three decades of manufacturing maintenance research: past, present and future directions. Production & Manufacturing Research. 13(1). 1 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, et al.. (2025). Requirements definition for the economic, environmental and social sustainability assessment of Product-Service Systems: State-of-the-art. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 208. 111382–111382. 2 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Maintenance lifecycle cost analysis through Agent-Based Simulation. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 58(8). 43–48. 1 indexed citations
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Pirola, Fabiana, et al.. (2024). Operative service delivery planning and scheduling in Product-Service Systems. Service Business. 18(2). 161–192. 1 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Quantitative Assessment of Product-Service System Sustainability: A Literature Review. IFIP advances in information and communication technology. 198–214. 1 indexed citations
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Rossi, Mónica, Sergio Terzi, Roberto Sala, et al.. (2024). AI Education for Tomorrow's Workforce: Leveraging Learning Factories for AI Education and Workforce Preparedness. Aisberg (University of Bergamo). 677–682. 4 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Antonio Maffei, Fabiana Pirola, et al.. (2024). Blended learning in the engineering field: A systematic literature review. Computer Applications in Engineering Education. 32(3). 2 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Fabiana Pirola, Giuditta Pezzotta, & Sergio Cavalieri. (2024). Leveraging Natural Language Processing for enhanced remote troubleshooting in Product-Service Systems: A case study. Procedia Computer Science. 232. 1259–1268. 1 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Fabiana Pirola, Giuditta Pezzotta, & Sergio Cavalieri. (2023). Improvement of maintenance-based Product-Service System offering through field data: a case study. Production & Manufacturing Research. 11(1). 1 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Fabiana Pirola, & Giuditta Pezzotta. (2023). On the development of the Digital Shadow of the Fischertechnik Training Factory Industry 4.0: an educational perspective. Procedia Computer Science. 217. 640–649. 2 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Fabiana Pirola, Giuditta Pezzotta, & Sergio Cavalieri. (2022). NLP-based insights discovery for industrial asset and service improvement: an analysis of maintenance reports. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 55(2). 522–527. 8 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, et al.. (2022). IoT platform-enabled decision-making for maintenance service delivery in PSS context: a case study. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management. 14(2/3). 206–206.
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Colli, Michele, Roberto Sala, Fabiana Pirola, et al.. (2019). Implementing a dynamic FMECA in the digital transformation era. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 52(13). 755–760. 6 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Giuditta Pezzotta, Fabiana Pirola, & George Q. Huang. (2019). Decision-Support System-based Service Delivery in the Product-Service System Context: Literature Review and Gap Analysis. Procedia CIRP. 83. 126–131. 9 indexed citations
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Pezzotta, Giuditta, Claudio Sassanelli, Fabiana Pirola, et al.. (2018). The Product Service System Lean Design Methodology (PSSLDM). Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. 29(8). 1270–1295. 61 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Giuditta Pezzotta, Claudio Sassanelli, et al.. (2018). The Integrated Design of Product-Service Systems using the DIVERSITY Platform: An Application Case. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 51(11). 1311–1316. 2 indexed citations
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Sassanelli, Claudio, Giuditta Pezzotta, Fabiana Pirola, et al.. (2018). Using design rules to guide the PSS design in an engineering platform based on the product service lifecycle management paradigm. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management. 11(2). 91–91. 25 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, et al.. (2017). The role of technology in designing and delivering Product-service Systems. Aisberg (University of Bergamo). 1255–1261. 7 indexed citations
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Sala, Roberto, Claudio Sassanelli, Giuditta Pezzotta, & Sergio Terzi. (2017). A Comprehensive Engineering Environment To Conceptualize, Design And Monitor Product Service Systems (Pss) - An Application Case. Aisberg (University of Bergamo). 2017. 194–200. 1 indexed citations

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