OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Gambling Studies is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Differences in gambling behaviors and mental health depending on types of gambling motives among young adults in Korea	25
Prevalence and correlates of gambling disorder in Spain: findings from a national survey	19
Crisis? What crisis in UK gambling policy reform?	18
Changes in gambling behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany	18
Gambling advertisements in Ontario: exploring the prevalence and regulatory compliance of televised and social media marketing during sports matches	17
Conceptual and methodological issues in pathways model research	16
Balancing conflicting interests: stakeholders’ interpretations of ‘moderation’ in Swedish gambling advertising legislation	13
Gambling spaces: socially motivated gambling in Danish upper-secondary school	12
Subtypes of patients with opioid use disorder in methadone maintenance treatment: A pathways model analysis	12
Betting flexibly: the utilization of knowledge in cockfighting in the Philippines	12
Gambling disorder subtypes: an updated systematic review	11
The minimal important change of the gambling symptom assessment scale among individuals experiencing gambling problems who underwent self-help internet interventions	9
Gaming after lockdowns: return to the slots	9
Outcome sequences and illusion of control - Part I: An online replication of Langer & Roth (1975)	9
Knowledge of random events and chance in people with gambling problems: an item analysis	9
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
Financial speculation in Canada: prevalence, correlates and relationship to gambling	8
A process model for responding to casino gambling harm experienced by Chinese migrants	8
Lower-risk gambling limits: linked analyses across eight countries	7
Applications of data science for responsible gambling: a scoping review	7
Expectations of the effects of nicotine on gambling behavior	7
Between anti-gambling and masculinity: mahjong playing among Japanese gay men	7
Awareness and impact of casino responsible gambling/harm minimization measures among Canadian electronic gaming machine players	6
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
Enabling New Strategies to Prevent Problematic Online Gambling: A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying At-risk Online Gamblers in France	6
The effects of induced sadness, stress sensitivity, negative urgency, and gender in laboratory gambling	6
Corporate social responsibility in the gambling industry: A systematic review and conceptual framework	5
A process-based analysis of the pathways model of problem gambling through clinical case formulations	5
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	5
Hopelessness in gambling disorder: relationship with affect, alexithymia and gambling motives in young adults	4
Players’ perceptions of, and engagement with, the GameSense responsible gambling program in Massachusetts casinos	4
Assessing harm severity: a Rasch analysis of the gambling harm measure	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
Nationalist sentiment and lottery markets: Evidence from Catalonia	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
‘Virtual reality in clinical and experimental gambling research: a review of methodologies’	3
Examining the spatial spillover of gambling regulation in the Czech Republic	3
Revisiting gambling research contributors’ use and views of open science principles and practices: a brief report	3
A systematic literature review of studies on attitudes towards gambling using the Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS)	3
A longitudinal study on the effects of materialism and mental health on gambling problems in Finland	3
The alarming development of online gambling in Iranian women during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Preferences for cashless gambling payment systems with integrated harm reduction measures among electronic gaming machine gamblers: a discrete choice experiment	3
The problem gambling measure: a revision of the problem & pathological gambling measure to better predict at-risk and chronic gambling	3
Are any samples representative or unbiased? reply to Pickering and Blaszczynski	3
Cryptocurrency and addictive behaviors in a census-matched U.S. Sample	2
Consumer preferences for network liquidity and opponent quality in online poker	2
Expectations about how alcohol consumption influences gambling	2
Effects of winning and losing streaks on within-session chasing in online gambling: a replication and extension study	2
Exploring the pathways model in a sample of patients with gambling disorder	2
All in: a scoping review of the association between gambling and athletic participation	2
Behavioral analysis of habit formation in modern slot machine gambling	2
Could the provision of multiple game themes be a neglected gambling product structural characteristic? Results of an online simulated gambling task	2
Letter to the editor: problem gambling in phenomenological psychopathology	2
The evolution of young gambling studies: digital convergence of gaming, gambling and cryptocurrency technologies	2
Applying the Protective Gambling Beliefs Scale (PGBS) among Chinese gamblers and testing its association with responsible gambling	2
Casino proximity, visit frequency, and gambling problems	2
Using latent class analysis to identify Finnish gambler types and potential risk	2
Fast or slow: applying life history strategies to responsible gambling adherence	2
Luck, logic, and white lies: the mathematics of games, second edition	2
Correction	2
Age and gender differences in gambling intensity in a Norwegian population of electronic gaming machine players	2
Making sense of gambling. Swedish youth navigating between risk and responsibility	2