Syed Radzi Bin Rahamaddulla, Zulkiflle Bin Leman, B.T Hang Tuah Bin Baharudin
This article encapsulates the expansion structure of Smart Manufacturing between 2011 and 2019 and offers a brief contextual impression on Smart Manufacturing interrelated publications and the application areas as well as the outlook. With the aim to provide a systematic review on the research topic, the analysis is conducted by PRISMA method, together with the adoption of the R language in analyzing the literature retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases. Four stages of data analysis with several performance metrics are employed and discussed. From this analysis, the total number of citations (TC), the total number of papers published (TP), and publication percentage are reported. Besides, Top 20 of most-cited authors, major subject area, source of the journal and total cited percentage are successfully assessed. From numerous researchers in the field, it can be concluded that Li D was the most competitive authors based on their large numbers of papers and citations.