Trends in Bio-Behavioral Gambling Studies Research: Quantifying Citations

Authors: Eber G.B.¹; Shaffer H.J.²

Source: Journal of Gambling Studies, Volume 16, Number 4, 2000 , pp. 461-467(7)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Both the National Gambling Impact Study Commission and the National Academy of Sciences have evaluated the current state of gambling studies research in general while making specific suggestions for future efforts in the psychological and biomedical areas in particular. Recognizing the importance of evaluating the state of the field on a macro level, this paper considers and categorizes several decades of psychological and biomedical gambling research. By examining the number of references to gambling in two major bibliographic databases, quantifiable trends and observations are presented about gambling-related psychological and biomedical research. Two trends in particular are salient: the rate at which gambling-related articles are published in scholarly journals is increasing, and the plurality of these articles deals with issues of cognition and personality as related to gambling.

Keywords: gambling research technology; computer; Internet; addiction; gambling; disordered gambling; construct validity

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Harvard Medical School 2: Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Howard_Shaffer@hms.harvard.edu

Publication date: 2000-01-01