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Migration from social casino games to gambling: Motivations and characteristics of gamers who gamble

Overview of attention for article published in Computers in Human Behavior, October 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
16 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
4 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

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mendeley
166 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Migration from social casino games to gambling: Motivations and characteristics of gamers who gamble
Published in
Computers in Human Behavior, October 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.021
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 166 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 15%
Student > Master 21 13%
Researcher 13 8%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Student > Postgraduate 11 7%
Other 26 16%
Unknown 59 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 33 20%
Social Sciences 16 10%
Computer Science 15 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 5%
Other 23 14%
Unknown 60 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 155. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2026.
All research outputs
#327,558
of 33,241,971 outputs
Outputs from Computers in Human Behavior
#178
of 4,988 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,895
of 329,963 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers in Human Behavior
#12
of 187 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,241,971 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,988 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 187 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.