With more than 10,000 citations in Google Scholar, 5,000 in Scopus and 3,600 in Web of Science and a Hirsch Index of 36 in Scopus and 31 in Web of Science Dan-Cristian Dabija is a representative Full Professor of Marketing at the Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania. Dr. Dabija completed his PhD Studies at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, and has been awarded several doctoral and postdoctoral research scholarships at Romanian, German, Hungarian, Polish, British and Finish universities. Dr. Dabija has led research projects on sustainability (PNII-RU-TE-2014-4-0312) and COVID-19 resilience in retail (PNIII-RU-TE-2021-0795) financed by the UEFISCDI, and an Erasmus+ Cooperations Partnership (2022-1-RO01-KA220-HED-000087365).

He was also awarded in September 2018 the Publons “Excellent Reviewers“ Award and the “Top Reviewers in Economics and Business“, and in September 2021 the “2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award” https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/3121. Since 2023 he is the best cited researcher in Marketing in Romania https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist_print.php?id=4347483; according to the update of the science-wide author database of standardized citation indicators, he is ranked among the top 2% highly cited researchers (2023: #51745; 2024: #28497; 2025: #27660) by Elsevier and Stanford University International Ranking https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7. In 2024 Dr. Dabija won the Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award for a coauthored paper in Journal of Knowledge Management, the Strategica International Conference Best Paper Award and the International Scientific Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since August 2024 Dr. Dabija serves as a member of the National Commission for the Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU) and since November 2024 Dr. Dabija is an associate member of the Academy of Romaian Scientists (AO?R), Section IX, Economics, Sociology and Juridical Sciences. Since 2026 he is also ranked by Research.com in place 2656 worldwide https://research.com/u/dan-cristian-dabija.