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Commentary: Prediction of problem gambling by demographics, gaming behavior and psychological correlates among gacha gamers: A cross-sectional online survey in Chinese young adults.
Leon Y Xiao, Nick Ballou, Charlotte Eben

Front Psychiatry· September 2025

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From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth.
Karen L Mansfield, Sakshi Ghai, Thomas Hakman, Nick Ballou, Matti Vuorre

Lancet Child Adolesc Health· March 2025

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Perceived value of video games, but not hours played, predicts mental well-being in casual adult Nintendo players.
Nick Ballou, Matti Vuorre, Thomas Hakman, Kristoffer Magnusson, Andrew K Przybylski

R Soc Open Sci· March 2025

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The Relationship Between Lockdowns and Video Game Playtime: Multilevel Time-Series Analysis Using Massive-Scale Data Telemetry.
David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Darel Halgarth, Nick Ballou, Joe Cutting

J Med Internet Res· November 2023

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No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry.
David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Elena Gordon-Petrovskaya, Nick Ballou, Leon Y Xiao

Nat Hum Behav· October 2023

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Cross-cultural patterns in mobile playtime: an analysis of 118 billion hours of human data.
David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Darel Halgarth, Nick Ballou, Simon Demediuk

Sci Rep· January 2023

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Response to Xiao et al.: If everything is a loot box, nothing is.
David Zendle, Paul Cairns, Rachel Meyer, Stuart Waters, Nick Ballou

Addiction· September 2022

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A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms.
Sam Parsons, Flávio Azevedo, Mahmoud M Elsherif, Samuel Guay, Owen N Shahim, Nick Ballou

Nat Hum Behav· March 2022

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Reforms to improve reproducibility and quality must be coordinated across the research ecosystem: the view from the UKRN Local Network Leads.
Suzanne L K Stewart, Charlotte R Pennington, Gonçalo R da Silva, Nick Ballou, Jessica Butler

BMC Res Notes· February 2022

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The relationship between mental well-being and dysregulated gaming: a specification curve analysis of core and peripheral criteria in five gaming disorder scales.
Nick Ballou, Antonius J Van Rooij

R Soc Open Sci· May 2021

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The prevalence of loot boxes in mobile and desktop games.
David Zendle, Rachel Meyer, Paul Cairns, Stuart Waters, Nick Ballou

Addiction· September 2020

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The changing face of desktop video game monetisation: An exploration of exposure to loot boxes, pay to win, and cosmetic microtransactions in the most-played Steam games of 2010-2019.
David Zendle, Rachel Meyer, Nick Ballou

PLoS One· August 2020

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