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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Prevalence and correlates of gambling disorder in Spain: findings from a national survey	31
The impact of gambling advertising online: a longitudinal study on exposure and harm	28
Practitioner perspectives on addressing gambling harms within substance misuse services: a qualitative study in the North East of England	25
Differences in gambling behaviors and mental health depending on types of gambling motives among young adults in Korea	19
Crisis? What crisis in UK gambling policy reform?	17
Gambling advertisements in Ontario: exploring the prevalence and regulatory compliance of televised and social media marketing during sports matches	16
Gambling spaces: socially motivated gambling in Danish upper-secondary school	15
Balancing conflicting interests: stakeholders’ interpretations of ‘moderation’ in Swedish gambling advertising legislation	14
Betting flexibly: the utilization of knowledge in cockfighting in the Philippines	14
‘I’ll come across something within a minute, guaranteed’: how young people who gamble experience gambling advertising under strict advertising regulations in Belgium	13
Gambling behavior and problem risk by coaching status in individuals with athletic backgrounds from an epidemiological sample	10
Length of continuous play sessions unrelated to problem gambling severity among regular electronic gaming machine players	9
Gaming after lockdowns: return to the slots	9
Beneficial or harmful? Finns’ perceptions of the consequences of their gambling on relationships, health, and finances	9
The minimal important change of the gambling symptom assessment scale among individuals experiencing gambling problems who underwent self-help internet interventions	8
Outcome sequences and illusion of control - Part I: An online replication of Langer & Roth (1975)	8
Betting against the future: online gambling exposure, behavior, and risks among Filipino youths	7
Social casino gaming in Indonesia: socio-economic and cultural impacts of Higgs Domino Island	7
A process model for responding to casino gambling harm experienced by Chinese migrants	7
Awareness and impact of casino responsible gambling/harm minimization measures among Canadian electronic gaming machine players	6
Between anti-gambling and masculinity: mahjong playing among Japanese gay men	6
Enabling New Strategies to Prevent Problematic Online Gambling: A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying At-risk Online Gamblers in France	6
Lower-risk gambling limits: linked analyses across eight countries	6
Expectations of the effects of nicotine on gambling behavior	6
Applications of data science for responsible gambling: a scoping review	6

Gambling-like digital assets and gambling severity: a correlational study with U.S. sports bettors consuming cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and fan tokens	5
School-related covariates of adolescent gambling: findings from the Stockholm school survey	5
The odds of harm: young men’s and parents’ views on online sports betting	5
Psychosocial predictors of problem gambling severity in males: findings from a longitudinal study of Australian men	5
Corporate social responsibility in the gambling industry: A systematic review and conceptual framework	5
Minimal important change is about importance, not certainty: minimal detectable change addresses certainty, not importance	5
Players’ perceptions of, and engagement with, the GameSense responsible gambling program in Massachusetts casinos	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
Assessing harm severity: a Rasch analysis of the gambling harm measure	5
Hopelessness in gambling disorder: relationship with affect, alexithymia and gambling motives in young adults	5
A systematic literature review of studies on attitudes towards gambling using the Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS)	4
The problem gambling measure: a revision of the problem & pathological gambling measure to better predict at-risk and chronic gambling	4
Canadian provincial channelization of online gambling in 2025: a cross-provincial analysis of player and revenue channelization	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	4
A longitudinal study on the effects of materialism and mental health on gambling problems in Finland	4
‘Virtual reality in clinical and experimental gambling research: a review of methodologies’	4
Preferences for cashless gambling payment systems with integrated harm reduction measures among electronic gaming machine gamblers: a discrete choice experiment	4
Randomized controlled trial of an online self-directed intervention for gambling problems with or without a motivational interview: 24-month follow-up	4
The alarming development of online gambling in Iranian women during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Could the provision of multiple game themes be a neglected gambling product structural characteristic? Results of an online simulated gambling task	3
Examining the spatial spillover of gambling regulation in the Czech Republic	3
Using latent class analysis to identify Finnish gambler types and potential risk	3
Revisiting gambling research contributors’ use and views of open science principles and practices: a brief report	3
Age and gender differences in gambling intensity in a Norwegian population of electronic gaming machine players	2
Who wagers on horse races? A large-scale investigation into the socioeconomic background of online horse bettors in the Finnish market	2
Beliefs, behaviors, and bets: impulsivity in veterans receiving inpatient treatment for gambling disorder	2
Cryptocurrency and addictive behaviors in a census-matched U.S. Sample	2
Affect regulation motives for gambling and gambling engagement: a two-year Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model	2
The evolution of young gambling studies: digital convergence of gaming, gambling and cryptocurrency technologies	2
Regulations on gambling advertising in Europe: a comparative policy review	2
The barriers to gambling research and publication in Nigeria	2
A new history of poker spectatorship: table chat, online forums, television piracy, and Twitch	2
Consumer preferences for network liquidity and opponent quality in online poker	2
Exploring the relationship between Positive Play and perceived knowledge in traditional sports gambling	2
Applying the Protective Gambling Beliefs Scale (PGBS) among Chinese gamblers and testing its association with responsible gambling	2
Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on problematic gambling and gaming: an international key informant survey	2
Effects of winning and losing streaks on within-session chasing in online gambling: a replication and extension study	2
All in: a scoping review of the association between gambling and athletic participation	2
Expectations about how alcohol consumption influences gambling	2