OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Gambling Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Prevalence and correlates of gambling disorder in Spain: findings from a national survey	24
Differences in gambling behaviors and mental health depending on types of gambling motives among young adults in Korea	18
Changes in gambling behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany	17
Gambling advertisements in Ontario: exploring the prevalence and regulatory compliance of televised and social media marketing during sports matches	16
Conceptual and methodological issues in pathways model research	16
Balancing conflicting interests: stakeholders’ interpretations of ‘moderation’ in Swedish gambling advertising legislation	15
Betting flexibly: the utilization of knowledge in cockfighting in the Philippines	14
Gambling spaces: socially motivated gambling in Danish upper-secondary school	13
The minimal important change of the gambling symptom assessment scale among individuals experiencing gambling problems who underwent self-help internet interventions	12
Gambling disorder subtypes: an updated systematic review	12
Subtypes of patients with opioid use disorder in methadone maintenance treatment: A pathways model analysis	12
Gaming after lockdowns: return to the slots	11
Knowledge of random events and chance in people with gambling problems: an item analysis	9
Outcome sequences and illusion of control - Part I: An online replication of Langer & Roth (1975)	9
A process model for responding to casino gambling harm experienced by Chinese migrants	8
Male gambling on retirement – qualitative analysis of problem and non-problem Polish gamblers’ motivation to gamble	8
Problem video gaming in adolescents: An examination of the Pathways Model	8
Between anti-gambling and masculinity: mahjong playing among Japanese gay men	8
Financial speculation in Canada: prevalence, correlates and relationship to gambling	8
Applications of data science for responsible gambling: a scoping review	8
Awareness and impact of casino responsible gambling/harm minimization measures among Canadian electronic gaming machine players	7
Expectations of the effects of nicotine on gambling behavior	7
Lower-risk gambling limits: linked analyses across eight countries	7
Enabling New Strategies to Prevent Problematic Online Gambling: A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying At-risk Online Gamblers in France	7
Microtransaction spending and problematic gambling of UK university call of duty gamers	6

Psychosocial predictors of problem gambling severity in males: findings from a longitudinal study of Australian men	6
Gambling-like digital assets and gambling severity: a correlational study with U.S. sports bettors consuming cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and fan tokens	6
The effects of induced sadness, stress sensitivity, negative urgency, and gender in laboratory gambling	6
Illegal video game loot boxes with transferable content on steam: a longitudinal study on their presence and non-compliance with and non-enforcement of gambling law	6
A process-based analysis of the pathways model of problem gambling through clinical case formulations	5
Corporate social responsibility in the gambling industry: A systematic review and conceptual framework	5
Players’ perceptions of, and engagement with, the GameSense responsible gambling program in Massachusetts casinos	5
Nationalist sentiment and lottery markets: Evidence from Catalonia	4
Hopelessness in gambling disorder: relationship with affect, alexithymia and gambling motives in young adults	4
School-related covariates of adolescent gambling: findings from the Stockholm school survey	4
Association between casino resort employee department and responsible gambling program perceptions: a three-year follow-up study	4
Assessing harm severity: a Rasch analysis of the gambling harm measure	4
Safety and efficacy of intensified electrical stimulation targeting dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the treatment of gambling disorder associated with online sports betting: a case report	3
The symbolic construction of sports betting products	3
Revisiting gambling research contributors’ use and views of open science principles and practices: a brief report	3
Preferences for cashless gambling payment systems with integrated harm reduction measures among electronic gaming machine gamblers: a discrete choice experiment	3
A systematic literature review of studies on attitudes towards gambling using the Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS)	3
Examining the spatial spillover of gambling regulation in the Czech Republic	3
The problem gambling measure: a revision of the problem & pathological gambling measure to better predict at-risk and chronic gambling	3
A longitudinal study on the effects of materialism and mental health on gambling problems in Finland	3
‘Virtual reality in clinical and experimental gambling research: a review of methodologies’	3
Are any samples representative or unbiased? reply to Pickering and Blaszczynski	2
Making sense of gambling. Swedish youth navigating between risk and responsibility	2
Fast or slow: applying life history strategies to responsible gambling adherence	2
Could the provision of multiple game themes be a neglected gambling product structural characteristic? Results of an online simulated gambling task	2
Using latent class analysis to identify Finnish gambler types and potential risk	2
All in: a scoping review of the association between gambling and athletic participation	2
Luck, logic, and white lies: the mathematics of games, second edition	2
Behavioral analysis of habit formation in modern slot machine gambling	2
The alarming development of online gambling in Iranian women during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Cryptocurrency and addictive behaviors in a census-matched U.S. Sample	2
Consumer preferences for network liquidity and opponent quality in online poker	2
Casino proximity, visit frequency, and gambling problems	2
Emotion regulation strategies and dissociation in Gambling Disorder	2
Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on problematic gambling and gaming: an international key informant survey	1
Age and gender differences in gambling intensity in a Norwegian population of electronic gaming machine players	1
Expectations about how alcohol consumption influences gambling	1
Criminogenic problem gambling: a study of verdicts by Swedish courts	1
Voltaire and gambling	1
Perceptions of gambling marketing among young adults who gamble in Ireland	1
Limit-setting in gambling: Some further thoughts and observations on Delfabbro and King (2021)	1
Gaming and gambling in adolescence: the role of personality, reflective functioning, time perspective and dissociation	1
The effects of impulsivity and near misses on persistence in play on a slot machine	1
The barriers to gambling research and publication in Nigeria	1
Exploring the pathways model in a sample of patients with gambling disorder	1
Effects of winning and losing streaks on within-session chasing in online gambling: a replication and extension study	1
Correction	1
Mathematics of casino carnival games	1
Validation of the gambling harm measure across three independent samples	1
The prevalence of adolescent problem gambling: examining sociodemographic risk factors in New Mexico	1

The effect of exclusion on subjective well-being indicators and problem gambling in Swiss casinos	1
Applying the Protective Gambling Beliefs Scale (PGBS) among Chinese gamblers and testing its association with responsible gambling	1
The evolution of young gambling studies: digital convergence of gaming, gambling and cryptocurrency technologies	1
Letter to the editor: problem gambling in phenomenological psychopathology	1
Outcome sequences and illusion of control – part II: the effect on post-loss speeding	1
Correction	1
Exploring a multidimensional concept of loss chasing using online sports betting records	1
Assessing severity of problem gambling – confirmatory factor and Rasch analysis of three gambling measures	1
Teacher attitudes towards and awareness of adolescent gambling behavior in the UK	1