OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Behavioral Addictions is 32. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic	412
How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with “smartphone addiction”?	181
Depression and anxiety symptoms associated with internet gaming disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	154
Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”?	141
Pornography use in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic	128
COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and problematic eating behaviors in a student population	114
Comparing generalized and specific problematic smartphone/internet use: Longitudinal relationships between smartphone application-based addiction and social media addiction and psychological distress	110
Problematic internet-related behaviors mediate the associations between levels of internet engagement and distress among schoolchildren during COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal structural equation mod	97
Correlations between mobile phone addiction and anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and poor sleep quality among college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis	91
Impact of COVID-19 on gaming disorder: Monitoring and prevention	87
The development of the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (CSBD-19): An ICD-11 based screening measure across three languages	75
Internet addiction and psychological distress among Chinese schoolchildren before and during the COVID-19 outbreak: A latent class analysis	65
The psychology of cryptocurrency trading: Risk and protective factors	58
Social anxiety and Internet gaming disorder: The role of motives and metacognitions	58
Determination the cut-off point for the Bergen social media addiction (BSMAS): Diagnostic contribution of the six criteria of the components model of addiction for social media disorder	57
Co-occurrences of substance use and other potentially addictive behaviors: Epidemiological results from the Psychological and Genetic Factors of the Addictive Behaviors (PGA) Study	52
What should be included in the criteria for compulsive sexual behavior disorder?	50
Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples	47
The relationship between childhood trauma and Internet gaming disorder among college students: A structural equation model	46
Associations between symptoms of problematic smartphone, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram use: An item-level exploratory graph analysis perspective	43
The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder: A meta-analysis	42
Proposed diagnostic criteria for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	39
Face validity evaluation of screening tools for gaming disorder: Scope, language, and overpathologizing issues	37
Parent–adolescent attachment and peer attachment associated with Internet Gaming Disorder: A longitudinal study of first-year undergraduate students	36
Treatments for internet addiction, sex addiction and compulsive buying: A meta-analysis	36

Physical activity influences the mobile phone addiction among Chinese undergraduates: The moderating effect of exercise type	35
Shared gray matter alterations in individuals with diverse behavioral addictions: A voxel-wise meta-analysis	34
Conduct problems and depressive symptoms in association with problem gambling and gaming: A systematic review	33
How COVID-19 stress related to schooling and online learning affects adolescent depression and Internet gaming disorder: Testing Conservation of Resources theory with sex difference	33
A network analysis of problematic smartphone use symptoms in a student sample	33
Relationship between problematic Internet use and age at initial weekly Internet use	32
The Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling: A revised framework for understanding gambling harm	32