OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Behavioral Addictions is 29. 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
Potentially addictive behaviours increase during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic	88
Corrigendum to: A cross-national comparison of problematic gaming behavior and well-being in adolescents	82
Corrigendum to: Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning	69
The longitudinal associations between internet addiction and ADHD symptoms among adolescents	68
LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder	55
Spatio-temporal EEG dynamics during decision-making in online poker players with problem gambling	47
What makes children aged 10 to 13 engage in problematic smartphone use? A longitudinal study of changing patterns considering individual, parental, and school factors	46
Profiles of problematic pornography use and religiosity-based moral incongruence using latent profile analysis: A two-sample study	45
Restless minds, restless nights: A 2-wave preliminary study on the associations between sleep quality, negative metacognitions and Problematic Smartphone Use	45
The neural correlates of delay discounting in obesity and binge eating disorder	44
Bridging the links between Big Five personality traits and problematic smartphone use: A network analysis	44
Reduced loss aversion in value-based decision-making and edge-centric functional connectivity in patients with internet gaming disorder	43
Corrigendum to: Clinical characteristics associated with problematic pornography use among individuals seeking treatment for opioid use disorder	43
Differential transcriptome profile underlying risky choice in a rat gambling task	42
Computerized cognitive training for problem gambling: A randomized controlled trial (TRAIN-online)	40
Longitudinal associations between psychiatric comorbidity and the severity of gambling disorder: Results from a 36-month follow-up study of clients in Bavarian outpatient addiction care	39
Attention, response inhibition, and hoarding: A neuropsychological examination	38
Applying ICD-11 criteria of Gaming Disorder to identify problematic video streaming in adolescents: Conceptualization of a new clinical phenomenon	37
Functional impairment, insight, and comparison between criteria for gaming disorder in the International Classification of Diseases, 11 Edition and internet gaming disorder in Diagnostic and Statistic	35
Development and validation of the Trading Disorder Scale for assessing problematic trading behaviors	34
Attentional bias to social media stimuli is moderated by fear of missing out among problematic social media users	33
Fear of missing out (FoMO) and internet use: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Mental and sexual health perspectives of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder •	32
Problematic online dating app use and its association with mental and sexual health outcomes in a sample of Men-having-Sex-with-Men	31
Differences in cross-sectional and daily diary problematic pornography use correlates	31

Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder	30
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on craving and negative emotion regulation in individuals at risk for problematic pornography use: A doub	30
Toward resolving normality-disorder boundary issues in gaming disorder research	30
The bidirectional associations between smartphone multitasking and anxiety symptoms among Chinese college students	30
The impact of life satisfaction in the treatment of gaming disorder and other internet use disorders: Results from a randomized controlled trial	29