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Gambling Behavior and Treatments

Gambling Behavior and Treatments is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of pathological gambling, its comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders, neurobiological underpinnings, prevalence, impulsivity, cognitive distortions, and treatment approaches. It also explores the correlation between adolescent gambling and parental influences. The research delves into the impact of gambling on intimate partner violence and child maltreatment, as well as the psychological and behavioral aspects of gambling addiction.

  • Pathological Gambling
  • Comorbidity
  • Impulsivity
  • Neurobiology
  • Treatment
  • Prevalence
  • Cognitive Distortions
  • Psychiatric Correlates
  • Adolescent Gambling
  • Brain Activity
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gambling Behavior and Treatments

Which countries lead Gambling Behavior and Treatments research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (740 and 271 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 740 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 271 works
  3. 3 China 188 works
  4. 4 Australia 185 works
  5. 5 Canada 165 works
  6. 6 Spain 123 works
  7. 7 Germany 108 works
  8. 8 Italy 83 works
  9. 9 India 82 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 73 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 36.7%United Kingdom: 13.4%China: 9.3%Australia: 9.2%6 others listed: 31.4%37%largest
United States740 · 36.7%United Kingdom271 · 13.4%China188 · 9.3%Australia185 · 9.2%6 others listed635 · 31.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Gambling Behavior and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Gambling Behavior and Treatments research, followed by University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Central Queensland University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 152 works
  2. 2 University of Nevada, Las VegasUnited States 20 works
  3. 3 Central Queensland UniversityAustralia 19 works
  4. 4 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 18 works
  5. 5 University of HelsinkiFinland 17 works
  6. 6 Deakin UniversityAustralia 17 works
  7. 7 Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 17 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 15 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  10. 10 Finnish Institute for Health and WelfareFinland 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gambling Behavior and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gambling Behavior and Treatments include Ali H. Mokdad, Ronald C. Kessler and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  6. 6 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  7. 7 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Gambling Behavior and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Gambling Behavior and Treatments is "Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale" (Jim H. Patton, Matthew S. Stanford, Ernest S. Barratt, 1995), with 7,887 citations. Next come "The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity" (4,185) and "Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning" (3,528).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale Jim H. Patton, Matthew S. Stanford, Ernest S. Barratt · Journal of Clinical Psychology Nov 1995 7,887
2 The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity Stephen P. Whiteside, Donald R. Lynam · Personality and Individual Differences Mar 2001 4,185
3 Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning Oriol Vinyals et al. · Nature 30 Oct 2019 3,528
4 A ‘components’ model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework Mark Damian Griffiths · Journal of Substance Use 2005 3,055
5 Neurogenetic Adaptive Mechanisms in Alcoholism Claude Robert Cloninger · Science 24 Apr 1987 2,287
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Where is Gambling Behavior and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Gambling Behavior and Treatments research in 2022-now are Sharon (United States), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon, Las Vegas and Helsinki.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SharonUnited States 152 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 43 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 34 works
  5. 5 HelsinkiFinland 33 works
  6. 6 StockholmSweden 30 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 25 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 25 works
  9. 9 MacaoChina 24 works
  10. 10 NottinghamUnited Kingdom 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 152.3 works494×
  2. Las VegasUS · 21.9 works32×
  3. HelsinkiFI · 33.0 works10×
  4. MacaoCN · 23.9 works10×
  5. NottinghamGB · 23.1 works9.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gambling Behavior and Treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gambling Behavior and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Deakin University, University of Bristol and Central Queensland University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 20.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Deakin UniversityNottingham Trent Uni…Central Queensland U…University of Bristol
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Deakin UniversityAustralia 84.728.5%14.6×17 +16.7%
2University of BristolUnited Kingdom 81.122.0%12.7×18 +331.3%
3Central Queensland UniversityAustralia 80.325.3%72.9×19 -10.7%
4Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 77.026.2%41.3×17 -23.6%
5University of British ColumbiaCanada 65.318.5%4.9×15 +2.3%
6University of HelsinkiFinland 64.620.3%9.5×17 -1.5%
7University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 63.618.6%7.7×13 +138.5%
8Ghent UniversityBelgium 59.616.4%6.6×13 +174.7%
9Yale UniversityUnited States 54.613.4%4.1×12 +10.4%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 53.719.9%4.1×13 -53.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Gambling Behavior and Treatments, country by country

Is Gambling Behavior and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gambling Behavior and Treatments.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Gambling Behavior and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gambling Behavior and Treatments over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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