Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Behavioral Addictions is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to: A cross-national comparison of problematic gaming behavior and well-being in adolescents73
Corrigendum to: Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning72
The longitudinal associations between internet addiction and ADHD symptoms among adolescents69
LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder53
Spatio-temporal EEG dynamics during decision-making in online poker players with problem gambling52
The high cost of direct marketing from wagering operators, tipsters and affiliates: An ecological momentary assessment of how wagering promotions drive betting, expenditure, and harm52
Potentially addictive behaviours increase during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic52
Profiles and transitions of non-suicidal self-injury with addictive features in adolescents: Predictive role of maladaptive cognitive schemas51
What makes children aged 10 to 13 engage in problematic smartphone use? A longitudinal study of changing patterns considering individual, parental, and school factors48
Restless minds, restless nights: A 2-wave preliminary study on the associations between sleep quality, negative metacognitions and Problematic Smartphone Use46
Profiles of problematic pornography use and religiosity-based moral incongruence using latent profile analysis: A two-sample study43
Longitudinal relation between childhood maltreatment and problematic internet game use among Chinese early adolescents: The roles of internalizing symptoms and FKBP5 gene variation39
Bridging the links between Big Five personality traits and problematic smartphone use: A network analysis38
Development and validation of the Trading Disorder Scale for assessing problematic trading behaviors38
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 care36
Temperament, brain structure and problematic video gaming in adolescence – A six-year longitudinal study36
Attention, response inhibition, and hoarding: A neuropsychological examination35
Applying ICD-11 criteria of Gaming Disorder to identify problematic video streaming in adolescents: Conceptualization of a new clinical phenomenon35
Mental and sexual health perspectives of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder •35
Attentional bias to social media stimuli is moderated by fear of missing out among problematic social media users35
Differential transcriptome profile underlying risky choice in a rat gambling task31
Corrigendum to: Clinical characteristics associated with problematic pornography use among individuals seeking treatment for opioid use disorder30
Fear of missing out (FoMO) and internet use: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis29
Reduced loss aversion in value-based decision-making and edge-centric functional connectivity in patients with internet gaming disorder29
Computerized cognitive training for problem gambling: A randomized controlled trial (TRAIN-online)29
The COVID-19 lockdown experience suggests that restricting the supply of gambling can reduce gambling problems: An Australian prospective study29
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 Statistic29
The bidirectional associations between smartphone multitasking and anxiety symptoms among Chinese college students28
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 doub28
Problematic online dating app use and its association with mental and sexual health outcomes in a sample of Men-having-Sex-with-Men27
The relationship between adolescent emotion dysregulation and problematic technology use: Systematic review of the empirical literature26
Concerned significant others of persons with problem gambling and problem gaming: Prevalence and characteristics in the Norwegian population26
Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder26
The impact of life satisfaction in the treatment of gaming disorder and other internet use disorders: Results from a randomized controlled trial25
Differences in cross-sectional and daily diary problematic pornography use correlates25
How gambling motives are associated with socio-demographics and gambling behavior - A Finnish population study25
Toward resolving normality-disorder boundary issues in gaming disorder research25
Gambling disorder and problematic pornography use: Does co-occurrence influence treatment outcome?24
Mediating roles of weight stigma and physical activity avoidance in the associations between severity of gaming disorder and levels of physical activity among young adults24
Think-aloud analysis of commonly used screening instruments for Internet use disorders: The CIUS, the IGDT-10, and the BSMAS24
Watch and yearn? Effects of watching gambling livestreams on cravings24
How can the potential harms of loot boxes be minimised?: Proposals for understanding and addressing issues at a national level24
Loot box purchasing is linked to problem gambling in adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling participation23
Problematic pornography use as an externalizing depression symptom in cisgender men: A cross-sectional questionnaire study23
Screen time, sleep, brain structural neurobiology, and sequential associations with child and adolescent psychopathology: Insights from the ABCD study23
Mainland China's 2021 restrictions on under-18s' video game time were imposed when older 2019 restrictions already applied: Omitting the historical regulatory context is misleading23
Effects of inducements on sports gambling and decision-errors: An experimental study22
Brain network alterations in mobile phone use problem severity: A multimodal neuroimaging analysis21
Global research status and trends of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis21
Current interpretations of the I-PACE model of behavioral addictions20
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Confidence biases in problem gambling20
Striatal ups or downs? Neural correlates of monetary reward anticipation, cue reactivity and their interaction in alcohol use disorder and gambling disorder19
Mental health professionals' use of the ICD-11 classification of impulse control disorders and behavioral addictions: An international field study19
Treatment effects and adherence of sexually compulsive men in a randomized controlled trial of psychotherapy and medication19
The concept of recovery in gaming disorder: A scoping review19
Abnormal structural alterations and disrupted functional connectivity in behavioral addiction: A meta-analysis of VBM and fMRI studies18
Enhanced conditioning and disrupted extinction processes in men struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors18
Gaming motivations and gaming disorder symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis18
Classification of nomophobia among Chinese college students: Evidence from latent profile and ROC analysis17
Personality dimensions of compulsive sexual behavior in the Sex@Brain study17
Temporal associations between physical activity and three types of problematic use of the internet: A six-month longitudinal study17
Neural mechanisms of intertemporal and risky decision-making in individuals with internet use disorder: A perspective from directed functional connectivity17
Symptoms of problematic pornography use among help-seeking male adolescents: Latent profile and network analysis17
Trait anxiety and corresponding neuromarkers predict internet addiction: A longitudinal study17
Operant light self-administration in mice and its relevance to digital technology-based disorders16
Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The development and international validation of the compulsive sexual behavior disorder-diagnostic inventory (CSBD-DI)16
The dynamic interplay between neuroticism, extraversion, and problematic gaming in adolescents: A 4-wave longitudinal study16
Distortions in time perception related to videogames, pornography, and TV series exposure: An experimental study in three independent samples16
Prefrontal cortex responses to game rewards and losses in individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder: Insights from fNIRS during mobile gameplay16
No evidence for the role of intentional emotion regulation in gambling-related problems: Insights from self-report, behavioral, and heart rate variability measures15
Do evaluation and self-identification relate to self-reported and actual social media use?15
Common and differential risk factors behind suicidal behavior in patients with impulsivity-related disorders: The case of bulimic spectrum eating disorders and gambling disorder15
Abnormal frontostriatal connectivity and serotonin function in gambling disorder: A preliminary exploratory study15
A three-wave longitudinal study on the underlying metacognitive mechanism between depression and Internet gaming disorder15
The associative learning roots of affect-driven impulsivity and its role in problem gambling: A replication attempt and extension of Quintero et al. (2020)15
Enhanced Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in internet gaming disorder15
Corrigendum to: Who feels affected by “out of control” sexual behavior? Prevalence and correlates of indicators for ICD-11 Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in the German Health and Sexuality Survey15
Changes in substance use and other reinforcing behaviours during the COVID-19 crisis in a general population cohort study of young Swiss men15
The Gaming Disorder Identification Test (GADIT) – A screening tool for Gaming Disorder based on ICD-1114
Prevalence of first- and second-wave digisexualities in Germany and their relation to Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Findings from a National Online Survey14
Bidirectional relationships between desire thinking and gambling disorder tendency: Insights from a longitudinal study of Esports gamblers14
Ranking of addiction journals in eight widely used impact metrics14
Validating the short gambling harm screen against external benchmarks14
What does “Sexual” mean in compulsive sexual behavior disorder? •14
The neural vulnerabilities in reward processing in gambling disorder14
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Conceptualizing love addiction within the attachment perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
Functional connectivity between the parahippocampal gyrus and the middle temporal gyrus moderates the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms: Evidence from a longitu13
Biased processing of game-related information in problematic mobile gaming users13
Family-based therapy for internet addiction among adolescents and young adults: A meta-analysis13
Illusions of control: A quasi-experiment comparing skill-based and traditional slot machines13
The vicious cycle of family dysfunction and problematic gaming and the mediating role of self-concept clarity among early adolescents: A within-person analysis using random intercept cross-lagged pane13
Altered dynamic reconfiguration of brain functional networks during gaming and deprivation in individuals with internet gaming disorder12
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for people with gambling disorder?12
How much gaming is too much? An analysis based on psychological distress12
Impaired sexual delay discounting as a potential mechanism in women's compulsive sexual behavior: Evidence from a mixed-gender experiment12
Long-term changes on behavioral addictions symptoms among adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treated with methylphenidate12
Risk factors and outcomes of internet gaming disorder identified in Korean prospective adolescent cohort study11
Longitudinal modifiable risk and protective factors of internet gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Draconian policy measures are unlikely to prevent disordered gaming11
Brain structural co-development is associated with internalizing symptoms two years later in the ABCD cohort11
Problematic usage of the internet: Converging and diverging terminologies and constructs11
Salivary testosterone levels are associated with Compulsive Sexual Behavior (CSB) in men but not in women in a community sample11
Forms of interventions for problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review10
Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder10
Impact of daily activity allocation on problematic internet use among university students: A compositional perspective10
Definitions and assessments of recovery from gambling disorder: A scoping review10
Sex differences in neural substrates of risk taking: Implications for sex-specific vulnerabilities to internet gaming disorder10
The effect of caffeine use in the relationship between gaming and sleep in adolescents: A mediation analysis10
Relationship of gambling disorder with traumatic life events and emotion regulation in adolescents and young adults10
Q-single: Linking functional impairment to problematic internet use through a single-question approach10
How do cumulative family risks influence the trajectory of problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: A three-year longitudinal study10
Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in eating disorders and gambling disorder: Treatment outcome implications10
Moderating effects of PER3 gene DNA methylation on the association between problematic mobile phone use and chronotype among Chinese young adults: Focus on gender differences10
High compliance and reduced online gaming time among Chinese adolescents after the 2021 gaming policy: Effects across all gamers, not just heavy users10
Testing the acceptability and feasibility of the lower-risk gambling guidelines in Finland9
Psychotherapy for problematic pornography use: A comprehensive meta-analysis9
Longitudinal associations between maladaptive daydreaming and psychological distress during the COVID-19 health crisis9
On the pitfalls of conceptualizing excessive physical exercise as an addictive disorder: Commentary on Dinardi et al. (2021)9
Gambling advertising on Twitter before, during and after the initial Australian COVID-19 lockdown9
Addiction substitution and concurrent recovery in gambling disorder: Who substitutes and why?9
Effects of acute stress on cue reactivity and implicit cognitions in online compulsive buying-shopping disorder9
Developmental trajectories of problematic social media use among adolescents: Associations with multiple interpersonal factors9
Individual-specific subspace of altered functional connectivity predicts clinical symptoms in Internet gaming disorder9
On the current psychotherapeutic situation for persons with pornography use disorder in Germany9
The landscape of open science in behavioral addiction research: Current practices and future directions9
Treatment for the concerned significant others of gamblers: A systematic review8
A cross-national comparison of problematic gaming behavior and well-being in adolescents8
User-avatar bond as diagnostic indicator for gaming disorder: A word on the side of caution8
Internet gaming disorder and risky behaviours among Czech adolescents: A nationally representative study8
“Phones off while school's on”: Evaluating problematic phone use and the social, wellbeing, and academic effects of banning phones in schools8
Safer esports for players, spectators, and bettors: Issues, challenges, and policy recommendations8
Development and validation of a prediction model for online gambling problems based on players' account data8
How gambling harms others: The influence of relationship-type and closeness on harm, health, and wellbeing8
Emotional interference and attentional bias in compulsive sexual behaviors disorder – An fMRI study on heterosexual males8
Redefining object attachment: Development and validation of a new scale8
Love at first glance: Imbalanced processing to gaming and natural rewards in internet gaming disorder8
Early childhood screen use and symptoms of problematic media use8
Spatial attention to social information in poker: A neuropsychological study using the Posner cueing paradigm7
Psychological intervention for gambling disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
The National Centre for Gaming Disorders (UK) - Who is accessing this service?7
Are there clinical, psychopathological and therapy outcomes correlates associated with self-exclusion from gambling?7
Regional brain activity of resting-state fMRI and auditory oddball ERP with multimodal approach in individuals with internet gaming disorder7
Where to put Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)? Phenomenology matters •7
Ultra-processed food intake and eating disorders: Cross-sectional associations among French adults7
Reserve your judgment on “Draconian” Chinese video gaming restrictions on children •7
Risky online buying-shopping behavior: The role of stress responsivity on the transfer from goal-directed behavior to stimulus-response habits7
Temporal attentional bias to visual game stimuli in Internet gaming disorder7
Gambling along the schizotypal spectrum: The associations between schizotypal personality, gambling-related cognitions, luck, and problem gambling7
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools7
Co-occurring compulsive sexual behaviour in an inpatient substance use population: Clinical correlates and influence on treatment outcomes7
Opposing associations of Internet Use Disorder symptom domains with structural and functional organization of the striatum: A dimensional neuroimaging approach7
Interconnected desires: A systematic review of compulsive buying-shopping disorder and its links to disordered eating and body image by gender7
List of reviewers in 20236
Implicit cognitions in problematic social network use6
Parkinson's disease and iatrogenic impulsive-compulsive behaviors: A case/non-case study to build a complete model of individual vulnerability6
Dysfunctional reward processing amplifies stress-related smartphone overuse: Evidence from ERPs and ecological momentary assessment6
Evaluation of a multicomponent positive psychology program to prevent gaming disorder and enhance mental wellness in primary pupils: A randomized controlled trial6
Exploring the role of the amygdala in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder via a parcellation pipeline based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis6
Taxonomy of toxic behaviors in multiplayer gaming environments: An extension of the context of peer aggression6
Salience and tolerance are not indicators of problematic social media use: Evidence from the Social Media Disorder Scale and the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale6
Imbalanced sensitivities to primary and secondary rewards in internet gaming disorder6
My secret life as a sex addict: How I repaired the damage6
Negative emotions mediate the association between the topology of the complex brain network and smartphone use disorder: A resting-state EEG study6
Nonconforming gender expression and associated problematic smartphone and internet use among Chinese adolescents6
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The importance of research on women6
From healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factors5
Gaming disorder and the COVID-19 pandemic: Treatment demand and service delivery challenges5
Online 8-week cognitive therapy for problem gamblers: The moderating effects of depression symptoms and perceived financial control5
Interaction effect of mobile gaming addiction and excessive sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on overweight and obesity among schoolchildren: Evidence from a large population-based study in Guangzh5
Problem gaming-related harm experienced by partners and parents of individuals with gaming problems and their help-seeking experiences5
From active escapism to virtual withdrawal: Validation of the Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming scales (C-DOGs)5
The potential relationship between loot box spending, problem gambling, and obsessive-compulsive gamers5
Structural brain differences related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder5
Sports betting around the world: A systematic review5
Identifying internet addiction profiles and bridge connectors among Chinese college students and evaluating CBT vs. CBT+MBI interventions via a randomized controlled trial5
Money used in gaming is associated with problem gambling: Results of the ESPAD 2019 Finland5
How COVID-19 stress related to schooling and online learning affects adolescent depression and Internet gaming disorder: Testing Conservation of Resources theory with sex difference5
Compulsivity-related behavioral features of problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review of paradigms, progress, and perspectives5
Effects of bilateral tDCS over DLPFC on response inhibition, craving, and brain functional connectivity in Internet gaming disorder: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial with fMRI5
Corrigendum to: Gambling disorder, increased mortality, suicidality, and associated comorbidity: A longitudinal nationwide register study5
Machine Learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A step towards conceptual and methodological clarity5
Update on treatment studies for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A systematic review5
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced early attentional bias toward sexual images in individuals with tendencies toward cybersex addiction5
Who feels affected by “out of control” sexual behavior? Prevalence and correlates of indicators for ICD-11 Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in the German Health and Sexuality Survey (GeSiD)5
The relationship between trait mindfulness and problematic usage of the internet, screen time, and nomophobia: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Mobile phone addiction and suicide behaviors among Chinese adolescents: The mediation of poor sleep quality5
Impact of digital addiction on youth health: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Construction and validation of the motives for smartphone use questionnaire4
A pilot study of a dyadic ecological momentary assessment of parents' negative emotional states and adolescents' gaming duration4
Trajectory of problematic smartphone use among adolescents aged 10–18 years: The roles of childhood family environment and concurrent parent–child relationships4
Features related to the presence of internet gaming disorder and their impact on the treatment outcomes4
Internet-based interventions for behavioral addictions: A systematic review4
Clinical consensus statements on change techniques for gambling treatment: A Delphi study with clinicians4
The PornLoS Treatment Program: Study protocol of a new psychotherapeutic approach for treating pornography use disorder4
Prediction of craving across studies: A commentary on conceptual and methodological considerations when using data-driven methods4
Prevalence and clinical phenotypes of adult patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and comorbid behavioral addictions4
Childhood use of coin pusher and crane grab machines, and adult gambling: A conceptual replication of Newall et al. (2021)4
An empirical investigation of the Pathways Model of problem gambling through the conjoint use of self-reports and behavioural tasks4
Temporal dynamics in attentional bias toward shopping cues among problematic online shoppers4
Is decreasing problematic mobile phone use a pathway for alleviating adolescent depression and sleep disorders? A randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of an eight-session mindfulness-4
Development of the Saini-Hodgins Addiction Risk Potential of Games (SHARP-G) Scale: An International Delphi study4
Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and problematic internet use among young adults: The role of the feeling of loneliness trajectory4
Prevalence of celebrity worship: Development and application of the short version of the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS-7) on a large-scale representative sample4
Altered asymmetry of amygdala volume mediates food addiction and weight gain4
The withdrawal-related affective, gaming urge, and anhedonia symptoms of internet gaming disorder during abstinence4
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