Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Article	Citations
Spatio-temporal EEG dynamics during decision-making in online poker players with problem gambling	91
Resource-strengthening training for adolescents with problematic gaming (Res@t-A): Results from an exploratory single-arm pre-post-follow-up intervention study	83
Corrigendum to: A cross-national comparison of problematic gaming behavior and well-being in adolescents	79
Corrigendum to: Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning	71
What makes children aged 10 to 13 engage in problematic smartphone use? A longitudinal study of changing patterns considering individual, parental, and school factors	69
Profiles and transitions of non-suicidal self-injury with addictive features in adolescents: Predictive role of maladaptive cognitive schemas	62
The high cost of direct marketing from wagering operators, tipsters and affiliates: An ecological momentary assessment of how wagering promotions drive betting, expenditure, and harm	62
LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder	57
Profiles of problematic pornography use and religiosity-based moral incongruence using latent profile analysis: A two-sample study	57
The longitudinal associations between internet addiction and ADHD symptoms among adolescents	57
Gambling in women: A systematic review of interventions and prevention approaches	56
Longitudinal relation between childhood maltreatment and problematic internet game use among Chinese early adolescents: The roles of internalizing symptoms and FKBP5 gene variation	55
Restless minds, restless nights: A 2-wave preliminary study on the associations between sleep quality, negative metacognitions and Problematic Smartphone Use	45
Temporal distortion may mediate the association between problematic mobile gaming and delay discounting: An experimental study	44
Differential transcriptome profile underlying risky choice in a rat gambling task	44
Bridging the links between Big Five personality traits and problematic smartphone use: A network analysis	44
Temperament, brain structure and problematic video gaming in adolescence – A six-year longitudinal study	43
Mental and sexual health perspectives of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder •	42
Corrigendum to: Clinical characteristics associated with problematic pornography use among individuals seeking treatment for opioid use disorder	42
Co-developmental trajectories of specific problematic usage of the internet: Associations with microsystem predictors and adolescents' mental health outcomes	42
Attention, response inhibition, and hoarding: A neuropsychological examination	39
Computerized cognitive training for problem gambling: A randomized controlled trial (TRAIN-online)	39
Applying ICD-11 criteria of Gaming Disorder to identify problematic video streaming in adolescents: Conceptualization of a new clinical phenomenon	38
Attentional bias to social media stimuli is moderated by fear of missing out among problematic social media users	37
Reduced loss aversion in value-based decision-making and edge-centric functional connectivity in patients with internet gaming disorder	36

Mapping affective pathways to compulsion: Insights from an aversive devaluation approach	32
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	31
Development and validation of the Trading Disorder Scale for assessing problematic trading behaviors	31
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	30
The COVID-19 lockdown experience suggests that restricting the supply of gambling can reduce gambling problems: An Australian prospective study	29
Differences in cross-sectional and daily diary problematic pornography use correlates	29
Problematic online dating app use and its association with mental and sexual health outcomes in a sample of Men-having-Sex-with-Men	29
Imbalanced goal-directed and habitual control in individuals with internet gaming disorder	28
The impact of life satisfaction in the treatment of gaming disorder and other internet use disorders: Results from a randomized controlled trial	28
Concerned significant others of persons with problem gambling and problem gaming: Prevalence and characteristics in the Norwegian population	28
Toward resolving normality-disorder boundary issues in gaming disorder research	27
The relationship between adolescent emotion dysregulation and problematic technology use: Systematic review of the empirical literature	27
The bidirectional associations between smartphone multitasking and anxiety symptoms among Chinese college students	27
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	26
Exercise addiction: A review and evaluation of current research and theory	26
Watch and yearn? Effects of watching gambling livestreams on cravings	25
Mediating roles of weight stigma and physical activity avoidance in the associations between severity of gaming disorder and levels of physical activity among young adults	25
Screen time, sleep, brain structural neurobiology, and sequential associations with child and adolescent psychopathology: Insights from the ABCD study	24
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 misleading	23
Hair testosterone and cortisol interactively predict problematic pornography use in a male sample	23
Brain network alterations in mobile phone use problem severity: A multimodal neuroimaging analysis	23
Deriving lower-risk gambling limits from data collected in four cross-sectional Finnish surveys	23
Problematic pornography use as an externalizing depression symptom in cisgender men: A cross-sectional questionnaire study	23
Think-aloud analysis of commonly used screening instruments for Internet use disorders: The CIUS, the IGDT-10, and the BSMAS	23
Gambling disorder and problematic pornography use: Does co-occurrence influence treatment outcome?	22
Global research status and trends of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: A comprehensive bibliometric analysis	22
Effects of inducements on sports gambling and decision-errors: An experimental study	22
Current interpretations of the I-PACE model of behavioral addictions	22
Enhanced conditioning and disrupted extinction processes in men struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors	21
Rethinking escapism and escape: A cognitive perspective on the C-DOG model	21
Neural mechanisms of intertemporal and risky decision-making in individuals with internet use disorder: A perspective from directed functional connectivity	21
Treatment effects and adherence of sexually compulsive men in a randomized controlled trial of psychotherapy and medication	21
Striatal ups or downs? Neural correlates of monetary reward anticipation, cue reactivity and their interaction in alcohol use disorder and gambling disorder	21
The concept of recovery in gaming disorder: A scoping review	20
Abnormal structural alterations and disrupted functional connectivity in behavioral addiction: A meta-analysis of VBM and fMRI studies	20
Mental health professionals' use of the ICD-11 classification of impulse control disorders and behavioral addictions: An international field study	20
Personality dimensions of compulsive sexual behavior in the Sex@Brain study	20
Symptoms of problematic pornography use among help-seeking male adolescents: Latent profile and network analysis	20
Efficacy of a mobile-based approach-avoidance task training (PROTECTapp) for problematic usage of the internet in young adults: A randomized controlled trial	19
Classification of nomophobia among Chinese college students: Evidence from latent profile and ROC analysis	19
The dual effects of individual and contextual factors on adolescent problematic internet use: Machine learning approaches and SHAP explanations	19
Confidence biases in problem gambling	19
Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The development and international validation of the compulsive sexual behavior disorder-diagnostic inventory (CSBD-DI)	18
Trait anxiety and corresponding neuromarkers predict internet addiction: A longitudinal study	17
Abnormal frontostriatal connectivity and serotonin function in gambling disorder: A preliminary exploratory study	16
Gaming motivations and gaming disorder symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
No evidence for the role of intentional emotion regulation in gambling-related problems: Insights from self-report, behavioral, and heart rate variability measures	16
Temporal associations between physical activity and three types of problematic use of the internet: A six-month longitudinal study	16
Distortions in time perception related to videogames, pornography, and TV series exposure: An experimental study in three independent samples	15
Co-occurrence of symptoms of substance and behavioral addictions over time: A secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors	15

Operant light self-administration in mice and its relevance to digital technology-based disorders	15
Do evaluation and self-identification relate to self-reported and actual social media use?	15
Enhanced Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in internet gaming disorder	15
Validating the short gambling harm screen against external benchmarks	14
Prefrontal cortex responses to game rewards and losses in individuals with Internet Gaming Disorder: Insights from fNIRS during mobile gameplay	14
The neural vulnerabilities in reward processing in gambling disorder	14
The dynamic interplay between neuroticism, extraversion, and problematic gaming in adolescents: A 4-wave longitudinal study	14
Common and differential risk factors behind suicidal behavior in patients with impulsivity-related disorders: The case of bulimic spectrum eating disorders and gambling disorder	14
A three-wave longitudinal study on the underlying metacognitive mechanism between depression and Internet gaming disorder	14
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 Survey	14
What does “Sexual” mean in compulsive sexual behavior disorder? •	13
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 pane	13
Longing for the game: Identifying as a “gamer” and addiction-related nostalgia undermine recovery from gaming disorder	13
Ranking of addiction journals in eight widely used impact metrics	13
The effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy self-help course in reducing excessive gaming behavior through inhibitory control: A pilot randomized controlled trial	13
Biased processing of game-related information in problematic mobile gaming users	13
Prevalence of first- and second-wave digisexualities in Germany and their relation to Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Findings from a National Online Survey	13
Rhinitis medicamentosa: Still searching for “new” behavioural addictions?	12
Bidirectional relationships between desire thinking and gambling disorder tendency: Insights from a longitudinal study of Esports gamblers	12
The associative learning roots of affect-driven impulsivity and its role in problem gambling: A replication attempt and extension of Quintero et al. (2020)	12
The Gaming Disorder Identification Test (GADIT) – A screening tool for Gaming Disorder based on ICD-11	12
Family-based therapy for internet addiction among adolescents and young adults: A meta-analysis	11
How much gaming is too much? An analysis based on psychological distress	11
Salivary testosterone levels are associated with Compulsive Sexual Behavior (CSB) in men but not in women in a community sample	11
Impaired sexual delay discounting as a potential mechanism in women's compulsive sexual behavior: Evidence from a mixed-gender experiment	11
Brain structural co-development is associated with internalizing symptoms two years later in the ABCD cohort	11
Illusions of control: A quasi-experiment comparing skill-based and traditional slot machines	11
Long-term changes on behavioral addictions symptoms among adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treated with methylphenidate	11
Altered dynamic reconfiguration of brain functional networks during gaming and deprivation in individuals with internet gaming disorder	10
Psychedelic-assisted therapy for people with gambling disorder?	10
The effect of caffeine use in the relationship between gaming and sleep in adolescents: A mediation analysis	10
Forms of interventions for problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review	10
Conceptualizing love addiction within the attachment perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
How do cumulative family risks influence the trajectory of problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: A three-year longitudinal study	10
This is ‘offside’: Gambling advertising during Czech football broadcasts	10
Risk factors and outcomes of internet gaming disorder identified in Korean prospective adolescent cohort study	10
Problematic usage of the internet: Converging and diverging terminologies and constructs	10
Moderating effects of PER3 gene DNA methylation on the association between problematic mobile phone use and chronotype among Chinese young adults: Focus on gender differences	10
Negative correlation between habenular volume and duration of gambling disorder: Modulation by symptom severity and personality traits	10
High compliance and reduced online gaming time among Chinese adolescents after the 2021 gaming policy: Effects across all gamers, not just heavy users	9
Longitudinal modifiable risk and protective factors of internet gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
The landscape of open science in behavioral addiction research: Current practices and future directions	9
Relationship of gambling disorder with traumatic life events and emotion regulation in adolescents and young adults	9
Emotional interference and attentional bias in compulsive sexual behaviors disorder – An fMRI study on heterosexual males	9
Longitudinal associations between maladaptive daydreaming and psychological distress during the COVID-19 health crisis	9
Safer esports for players, spectators, and bettors: Issues, challenges, and policy recommendations	9
Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder	9
On the current psychotherapeutic situation for persons with pornography use disorder in Germany	9
Definitions and assessments of recovery from gambling disorder: A scoping review	9
Psychotherapy for problematic pornography use: A comprehensive meta-analysis	9
Addiction substitution and concurrent recovery in gambling disorder: Who substitutes and why?	9
Gambling advertising on Twitter before, during and after the initial Australian COVID-19 lockdown	9
Sex differences in neural substrates of risk taking: Implications for sex-specific vulnerabilities to internet gaming disorder	9
Q-single: Linking functional impairment to problematic internet use through a single-question approach	9
Impact of daily activity allocation on problematic internet use among university students: A compositional perspective	9
Redefining object attachment: Development and validation of a new scale	9
Testing the acceptability and feasibility of the lower-risk gambling guidelines in Finland	9
On the pitfalls of conceptualizing excessive physical exercise as an addictive disorder: Commentary on Dinardi et al. (2021)	9
“Phones off while school's on”: Evaluating problematic phone use and the social, wellbeing, and academic effects of banning phones in schools	8
Spatial attention to social information in poker: A neuropsychological study using the Posner cueing paradigm	8
Early childhood screen use and symptoms of problematic media use	8
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools	8
Developmental trajectories of problematic social media use among adolescents: Associations with multiple interpersonal factors	8
Health response to problematic usage of the internet: A global survey on trends, available treatments and key challenges	8
Love at first glance: Imbalanced processing to gaming and natural rewards in internet gaming disorder	8
Psychological intervention for gambling disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
More frequent use of live sports-betting features is associated with increased risk of gambling harm: Evidence from a case-control design	8
Development and validation of a prediction model for online gambling problems based on players' account data	8
Individual-specific subspace of altered functional connectivity predicts clinical symptoms in Internet gaming disorder	8
A cross-national comparison of problematic gaming behavior and well-being in adolescents	8
User-avatar bond as diagnostic indicator for gaming disorder: A word on the side of caution	8
Ultra-processed food intake and eating disorders: Cross-sectional associations among French adults	8
Compulsive exercise in adults with trichotillomania and skin picking disorder	8
A global investigation of the Moral Incongruence Model of Pornography Use across genders, religions, and cultures	8
Effects of acute stress on cue reactivity and implicit cognitions in online compulsive buying-shopping disorder	8
The National Centre for Gaming Disorders (UK) - Who is accessing this service?	7
Gambling along the schizotypal spectrum: The associations between schizotypal personality, gambling-related cognitions, luck, and problem gambling	7
How gambling harms others: The influence of relationship-type and closeness on harm, health, and wellbeing	7
Are there clinical, psychopathological and therapy outcomes correlates associated with self-exclusion from gambling?	7
Comprehensive analysis of the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and food addiction at one-year follow-up in older adults with metabolic syndrome	7

My secret life as a sex addict: How I repaired the damage	7
Regional brain activity of resting-state fMRI and auditory oddball ERP with multimodal approach in individuals with internet gaming disorder	7
Risky online buying-shopping behavior: The role of stress responsivity on the transfer from goal-directed behavior to stimulus-response habits	7
The association of relative deprivation, interpersonal relationships, and problematic social media use in 39 countries/regions: Does school contextual inequality matter?	7
Where to put Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)? Phenomenology matters •	7
Reserve your judgment on “Draconian” Chinese video gaming restrictions on children •	7
Opposing associations of Internet Use Disorder symptom domains with structural and functional organization of the striatum: A dimensional neuroimaging approach	7
Exploring the role of the amygdala in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder via a parcellation pipeline based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis	7
Temporal attentional bias to visual game stimuli in Internet gaming disorder	7
Interconnected desires: A systematic review of compulsive buying-shopping disorder and its links to disordered eating and body image by gender	7
Internet gaming disorder and risky behaviours among Czech adolescents: A nationally representative study	7
Negative emotions mediate the association between the topology of the complex brain network and smartphone use disorder: A resting-state EEG study	7
List of reviewers in 2023	7
Dysfunctional reward processing amplifies stress-related smartphone overuse: Evidence from ERPs and ecological momentary assessment	7
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The importance of research on women	7
Co-occurring compulsive sexual behaviour in an inpatient substance use population: Clinical correlates and influence on treatment outcomes	7
Taxonomy of toxic behaviors in multiplayer gaming environments: An extension of the context of peer aggression	6
From healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factors	6
Implicit cognitions in problematic social network use	6
Structural brain differences related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder	6
The Problematic Behaviour Scale (PBS-5): A brief measure for the population-level screening of non-substance-bound addictive behaviours and Swiss national prevalence rates	6
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 fMRI	6
Nonconforming gender expression and associated problematic smartphone and internet use among Chinese adolescents	6
Corrigendum to: Gambling disorder, increased mortality, suicidality, and associated comorbidity: A longitudinal nationwide register study	6
Entrapment in games: Reframing persistence in the I-PACE framework	6
Salience and tolerance are not indicators of problematic social media use: Evidence from the Social Media Disorder Scale and the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale	6
Gaming disorder and the COVID-19 pandemic: Treatment demand and service delivery challenges	6
Parkinson's disease and iatrogenic impulsive-compulsive behaviors: A case/non-case study to build a complete model of individual vulnerability	6
Update on treatment studies for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A systematic review	6
Evaluation of a multicomponent positive psychology program to prevent gaming disorder and enhance mental wellness in primary pupils: A randomized controlled trial	6
A clustering based on the dynamics of DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder: A 5-year follow-up of gamblers with and without gambling disorder	6
Machine Learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A step towards conceptual and methodological clarity	6
Profiles of service use among patients with gambling disorders	6
The potential relationship between loot box spending, problem gambling, and obsessive-compulsive gamers	5
Three key lessons learned from over a decade of gaming disorder assessment research	5
Identifying internet addiction profiles and bridge connectors among Chinese college students and evaluating CBT vs. CBT+MBI interventions via a randomized controlled trial	5
Comparing functional impairments related to social network use disorder and internet gaming disorder	5
From active escapism to virtual withdrawal: Validation of the Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming scales (C-DOGs)	5
Prediction of craving across studies: A commentary on conceptual and methodological considerations when using data-driven methods	5
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
Trajectory of problematic smartphone use among adolescents aged 10–18 years: The roles of childhood family environment and concurrent parent–child relationships	5
The relationship between trait mindfulness and problematic usage of the internet, screen time, and nomophobia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Sports betting around the world: A systematic review	5
Nasal spray addiction: Further thoughts and observations –A qualitative analysis of addiction components in “rhinitis medicamentosa” by Lakatos et al. (2025)	5
Compulsivity-related behavioral features of problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review of paradigms, progress, and perspectives	5
The PornLoS Treatment Program: Study protocol of a new psychotherapeutic approach for treating pornography use disorder	5
Problem gaming-related harm experienced by partners and parents of individuals with gaming problems and their help-seeking experiences	5
A pilot study of a dyadic ecological momentary assessment of parents' negative emotional states and adolescents' gaming duration	5
When rejection backfires: Social exclusion and economic decision-making in gamblers	5
Impact of digital addiction on youth health: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Mobile phone addiction and suicide behaviors among Chinese adolescents: The mediation of poor sleep quality	5
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 Guangzh	5
Internet-based interventions for behavioral addictions: A systematic review	5
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-	5
Construction and validation of the motives for smartphone use questionnaire	5