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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
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The aim of the journal is to create a forum for the scientific information exchange with regard to behavioral addictions. The journal is a broad focused interdisciplinary one that publishes manuscripts on different approaches of non-substance addictions, research reports focusing on the addictive patterns of various behaviors, especially disorders of the impulsive-compulsive spectrum, and also publishes reviews in these topics. Coverage ranges from genetic and neurobiological research through psychological and clinical psychiatric approaches to epidemiological, sociological and anthropological aspects.

The Journal of Behavioral Addictions declares its support for and follows the ethical principles enshrined in the Farmington Consensus.

The Journal of Behavioral Addictions is full member of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE).

The Journal of Behavioral Addictions is a fully open access journal. Readers can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other non-commercial lawful purpose. Articles are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licenses.

 

Impact and ranking (2023)

Impact factor 6.6 (Q1) Scopus CiteScore 12.3 (Q1) Scimago SJR 2.188 (Q1)
Sexual trauma and compulsive sexual behavior in young men and women: A network analysis involving two samples
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00074
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Stigma in substance-based and behavioural addictions: A systematic review
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00072
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Computerized cognitive training for problem gambling: A randomized controlled trial (TRAIN-online)
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00080
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From healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factors
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00077
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Temporal attentional bias to visual game stimuli in Internet gaming disorder
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00075
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Gaming disorder: Neural mechanisms and ongoing debates
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00071
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Features related to the presence of internet gaming disorder and their impact on the treatment outcomes
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00070
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Feels good, and less bad: Problematic use of the Internet is associated with heightened experiences of both gratification and compensation
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00067
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Corrigendum to: Clinical characteristics associated with problematic pornography use among individuals seeking treatment for opioid use disorder
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.40000
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947–948
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9th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA 2024) July 8–10, 2024 Gibraltar
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00900
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1–345
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Testing the acceptability and feasibility of the lower-risk gambling guidelines in Finland
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00065
Pages:
987–1002
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The longitudinal association between reward processing and symptoms of video game addiction in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00068
Pages:
1051–1063
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A case-control study for psychiatric comorbidity and associative factors of gaming disorder and hazardous gaming based on ICD-11 criteria: Cognitive control, emotion regulation, and reinforcement sensitivity
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00066
Pages:
1014–1027
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Deficits in spontaneous versus instructed emotion regulation in problematic pornography use
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00064
Pages:
949–961
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Watch and yearn? Effects of watching gambling livestreams on cravings
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00062
Pages:
974–986
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White matter microstructural and Compulsive Sexual Behaviors Disorder – Diffusion Tensor Imaging study
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2021.00002
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55–64
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Occurrence and clinical characteristics of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD): A cluster analysis in two independent community samples
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00025
Pages:
446–468
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Online gaming addiction in children and adolescents: A review of empirical research
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https://doi.org/10.1556/jba.1.2012.1.1
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3–22
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Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.49
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252–259
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Relationship of smartphone use severity with sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in university students
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.010
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85–92
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Social media addiction: What is the role of content in YouTube?
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.058
Pages:
364–377
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Pornography use in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00015
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181–183
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Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.037
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299–307
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Excessive social media users demonstrate impaired decision making in the Iowa Gambling Task
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.138
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169–173
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Instagram addiction and the Big Five of personality: The mediating role of self-liking
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.15
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158–170
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Relationship of smartphone use severity with sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in university students
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.010
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85–92
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Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.009
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119–123
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The uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction
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https://doi.org/10.1556/jba.3.2014.016
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133–148
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Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.4.2015.037
Pages:
299–307
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Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.49
Pages:
252–259
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The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and addiction among male and female college students
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https://doi.org/10.1556/jba.3.2014.015
Pages:
254–265
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Problem gambling worldwide: An update and systematic review of empirical research (2000–2015)
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.073
Pages:
592–613
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The relationships between behavioral addictions and the five-factor model of personality
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https://doi.org/10.1556/jba.2.2013.003
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90–99
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Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00016
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184–186
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Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal
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https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.088
Pages:
267–270
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ICBA 2025

The International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions (ISSBA) is pleased to announce that the registration and abstract submission is now open for the 10th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA), which will take place in Nantes, France on 7-8-9 July, 2025.

The conference website is: https://icba.issba.hu

Abstract submission deadline for mini talks and posters  is 31 January 2025.
The normal registration deadline is 17 February 2025 (payment must be completed no later than 17 March 2025).

If you would like to receive further news, you can sign up for the information letters of the ISSBA (issba.hu), where you can also become a member of the Society.

We hope to see you in Nantes!

Best wishes,
Zsolt Demetrovics
President of ISSBA

Marie Grall-Bronnec
Local Organizer of the Conference

Gaëlle Challet
Local Organizer of the Conference

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Published with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

 

Dr. Zsolt Demetrovics
Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
Address: Izabella u. 46. H-1064 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: +36-1-461-2681
E-mail: jba@ppk.elte.hu

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2023  
Web of Science  
Journal Impact Factor 6.6
Rank by Impact Factor Q1 (Psychiatry)
Journal Citation Indicator 1.59
Scopus  
CiteScore 12.3
CiteScore rank Q1 (Clinical Psychology)
SNIP 1.604
Scimago  
SJR index 2.188
SJR Q rank Q1

Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Publication Model Gold Open Access
Submission Fee none
Article Processing Charge 990 EUR/article
Effective from  1st Feb 2025:
1400 EUR/article
Regional discounts on country of the funding agency World Bank Lower-middle-income economies: 50%
World Bank Low-income economies: 100%
Further Discounts Corresponding authors, affiliated to an EISZ member institution subscribing to the journal package of Akadémiai Kiadó: 100%.
Subscription Information Gold Open Access

Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Language English
Size A4
Year of
Foundation		 2011
Volumes
per Year		 1
Issues
per Year		 4
Founder Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Founder's
Address		 H-1053 Budapest, Hungary Egyetem tér 1-3.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Publisher's
Address		 H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Responsible
Publisher		 Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 2062-5871 (Print)
ISSN 2063-5303 (Online)

Senior editors

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Zsolt DEMETROVICS

Assistant Editor(s): 

Csilla ÁGOSTON

Dana KATZ

Associate Editors

  • Stephanie ANTONS (Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Joel BILLIEUX (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Beáta BŐTHE (University of Montreal, Canada)
  • Matthias BRAND (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Daniel KING (Flinders University, Australia)
  • Gyöngyi KÖKÖNYEI (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Ludwig KRAUS (IFT Institute for Therapy Research, Germany)
  • Marc N. POTENZA (Yale University, USA)
  • Hans-Jurgen RUMPF (University of Lübeck, Germany)
  • Ruth J. VAN HOLST (Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands)

Editorial Board

  • Sophia ACHAB (Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Alex BALDACCHINO (St Andrews University, United Kingdom)
  • Judit BALÁZS (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Maria BELLRINGER (Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand)
  • Henrietta BOWDEN-JONES (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
  • Damien BREVERS (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Julius BURKAUSKAS (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania)
  • Gerhard BÜHRINGER (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
  • Silvia CASALE (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
  • Luke CLARK (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
  • Jeffrey L. DEREVENSKY (McGill University, Canada)
  • Geert DOM (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Nicki DOWLING (Deakin University, Geelong, Australia)
  • Hamed EKHTIARI (University of Minnesota, United States)
  • Jon ELHAI (University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA)
  • Ana ESTEVEZ (University of Deusto, Spain)
  • Fernando FERNANDEZ-ARANDA (Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Naomi FINEBERG (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
  • Sally GAINSBURY (The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia)
  • Belle GAVRIEL-FRIED (The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  • Biljana GJONESKA (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Republic of North Macedonia)
  • Marie GRALL-BRONNEC (University Hospital of Nantes, France)
  • Jon E. GRANT (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Mark GRIFFITHS (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom)
  • Joshua GRUBBS (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
  • Anneke GOUDRIAAN (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Susumu HIGUCHI (National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Japan)
  • David HODGINS (University of Calgary, Canada)
  • Eric HOLLANDER (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
  • Zsolt HORVÁTH (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Susana JIMÉNEZ-MURCIA (Clinical Psychology Unit, Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Yasser KHAZAAL (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland)
  • Orsolya KIRÁLY (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Chih-Hung KO (Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan)
  • Shane KRAUS (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA)
  • Hae Kook LEE (The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea)
  • Bernadette KUN (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Katerina LUKAVSKA (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Giovanni MARTINOTTI (‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
  • Gemma MESTRE-BACH (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, La Rioja, Spain)
  • Astrid MÜLLER (Hannover Medical School, Germany)
  • Daniel Thor OLASON (University of Iceland, Iceland)
  • Ståle PALLESEN (University of Bergen, Norway)
  • Afarin RAHIMI-MOVAGHAR (Teheran University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
  • József RÁCZ (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  • Michael SCHAUB (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Marcantanio M. SPADA (London South Bank University, United Kingdom)
  • Daniel SPRITZER (Study Group on Technological Addictions, Brazil)
  • Dan J. STEIN (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Sherry H. STEWART (Dalhousie University, Canada)
  • Attila SZABÓ (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Hermano TAVARES (Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
  • Wim VAN DEN BRINK (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • Alexander E. VOISKOUNSKY (Moscow State University, Russia)
  • Aviv M. WEINSTEIN (Ariel University, Israel)
  • Anise WU (University of Macau, Macao, China)
  • Ágnes ZSILA (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)