"Dunărea de Jos" University of Galați, www.ugal.ro, is a university located in the South-East Region of Romania, which comprises 14 faculties and prepares students for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral cycles in various fields - technical, humanistic, economic, health, artistic. Doctoral studies at the "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galați are conducted within 4 Doctoral Schools, across 19 doctoral domains, under the coordination of 147 doctoral supervisors.

The Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development Studies is the scientific journal of the doctoral field Engineering and Management in Agriculture and Rural Development - www.imadr.ugal.ro.