Identifying research streams in online gambling and gaming literature: A bibliometric analysis

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Highlights:

• The paper provides a holistic synthesis of online gambling and gaming research.

• Online gambling and gaming literature consists of six main research streams.

• Social network analysis visually represents a division into two sub-networks.

• The research community has increasingly focused on the challenges of gaming addiction.

• A discussion of the findings reveals important potential future research avenues.

摘要

•The paper provides a holistic synthesis of online gambling and gaming research.•Online gambling and gaming literature consists of six main research streams.•Social network analysis visually represents a division into two sub-networks.•The research community has increasingly focused on the challenges of gaming addiction.•A discussion of the findings reveals important potential future research avenues.

论文关键词:Internet gambling,Online gaming,Convergence,Consumer behavior,Bibliometric analysis,Co-citation

论文评审过程:Received 26 June 2019, Revised 30 November 2019, Accepted 3 December 2019, Available online 4 December 2019, Version of Record 25 February 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106219