| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Problematic internet and cell-phone use: Psychological, behavioral, and health correlates | Addiction Research and Theory | 2007 | 355 |
| 2 | The Exercise Addiction Inventory: A New Brief Screening Tool | Addiction Research and Theory | 2004 | 351 |
| 3 | Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition: the social identity model of recovery (SIMOR) | Addiction Research and Theory | 2016 | 306 |
| 4 | Addiction as accomplishment: The discursive construction of disease | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 258 |
| 5 | Reducing self-stigma in substance abuse through acceptance and commitment therapy: Model, manual development, and pilot outcomes | Addiction Research and Theory | 2008 | 246 |
| 6 | Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: Systematic error in prospective studies | Addiction Research and Theory | 2006 | 232 |
| 7 | How do people recover from alcohol dependence? A systematic review of the research on mechanisms of behavior change in Alcoholics Anonymous | Addiction Research and Theory | 2009 | 219 |
| 8 | Internet sex addiction: A review of empirical research | Addiction Research and Theory | 2012 | 199 |
| 9 | Internet addiction? Potentially problematic use of the Internet in a population of 12–18 year-old adolescents | Addiction Research and Theory | 2004 | 192 |
| 10 | Normalization as a barometer: Recreational drug use and the consumption of leisure by younger Britons | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 175 |
| 11 | Cultural values and substance use in a multiethnic sample of California adolescents | Addiction Research and Theory | 2002 | 166 |
| 12 | Drug markets and distribution systems | Addiction Research and Theory | 2004 | 157 |
| 13 | Definitions and measures of exercise dependence | Addiction Research and Theory | 2006 | 155 |
| 14 | Recovery capital: a systematic review of the literature | Addiction Research and Theory | 2017 | 148 |
| 15 | Using multiple coders to enhance qualitative analysis: The case of interviews with consumers of drug treatment | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 141 |
| 16 | Excessive Exercise as an Addiction: A Review | Addiction Research and Theory | 2002 | 131 |
| 17 | Towards a theory of drug use contexts: Space, embodiment and practice | Addiction Research and Theory | 2007 | 117 |
| 18 | A critical consideration of social networking sites’ addiction potential | Addiction Research and Theory | 2017 | 114 |
| 19 | Crack and the Political Economy of Social Suffering | Addiction Research and Theory | 2003 | 111 |
| 20 | Responsible gambling: a synthesis of the empirical evidence | Addiction Research and Theory | 2017 | 104 |
| 21 | Shopping addiction: A preliminary investigation among Maltese university students | Addiction Research and Theory | 2008 | 101 |
| 22 | Internet addiction of adolescents in China: Prevalence, predictors, and association with well-being | Addiction Research and Theory | 2013 | 100 |
| 23 | “I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user”: A discourse analysis of 44 drug users’ construction of identity | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 99 |
| 24 | A critical account of DSM-5 criteria for internet gaming disorder | Addiction Research and Theory | 2015 | 99 |
| 25 | Subcultural evolution and illicit drug use | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 98 |
| 26 | Defining and operationalizing the phenomena of recovery: a working definition from the recovery science research collaborative | Addiction Research and Theory | 2019 | 98 |
| 27 | Aggression Among Young Adults in the Social Context of the Bar | Addiction Research and Theory | 2001 | 96 |
| 28 | Online gaming addiction: Classification, prediction and associated risk factors | Addiction Research and Theory | 2012 | 95 |
| 29 | Cannabis use and Social Identity | Addiction Research and Theory | 2001 | 94 |
| 30 | On the Qualitative in Drugs Research: Part One | Addiction Research and Theory | 2001 | 93 |
| 31 | Alcohol and the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of addiction and its impact on the sense of self and identity | Addiction Research and Theory | 2009 | 92 |
| 32 | Exploring the micro-politics of normalisation: Narratives of pleasure, self-control and desire in a sample of young Australian ‘party drug’ users | Addiction Research and Theory | 2010 | 88 |
| 33 | Do gaming motives mediate between psychiatric symptoms and problematic gaming? An empirical survey study | Addiction Research and Theory | 2017 | 88 |
| 34 | Why the Pervasive Addiction Myth is Still Believed | Addiction Research and Theory | 2002 | 87 |
| 35 | Is cannabis use normalized, celebrated or neutralized? Analysing talk as action | Addiction Research and Theory | 2012 | 87 |
| 36 | Experiences of Addiction and Recovery: the Case for Subjective Accounts | Addiction Research and Theory | 2002 | 85 |
| 37 | Cannabis effects and dependency concerns in long-term frequent users: a missing piece of the public health puzzle | Addiction Research and Theory | 2003 | 83 |
| 38 | Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to understand smoking amongst schoolchildren | Addiction Research and Theory | 2005 | 82 |
| 39 | Beginning gambling: The role of social networks and environment | Addiction Research and Theory | 2011 | 82 |
| 40 | Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol and other drugs: A dispensary-based survey of substitution effect in Canadian medical cannabis patients | Addiction Research and Theory | 2013 | 82 |
| 41 | Pathological video-gaming among youth: A prospective study examining dynamic protective factors | Addiction Research and Theory | 2015 | 82 |
| 42 | Substance abuse and psychological flexibility: The development of a new measure | Addiction Research and Theory | 2011 | 81 |
| 43 | Why is adolescent drinking declining? A systematic review and narrative synthesis | Addiction Research and Theory | 2020 | 81 |
| 44 | A biaxial formulation of the recovery construct | Addiction Research and Theory | 2015 | 80 |
| 45 | Constructing maturity through alcohol experience–Focus group interviews with teenagers | Addiction Research and Theory | 2006 | 77 |
| 46 | A ‘standard joint’? The role of quantity in predicting cannabis-related problems | Addiction Research and Theory | 2012 | 77 |
| 47 | Addiction as a complex social process: An action theoretical perspective | Addiction Research and Theory | 2008 | 75 |
| 48 | Functional methamphetamine use: The insider's perspective | Addiction Research and Theory | 2007 | 74 |
| 49 | “Big Gambling”: The rise of the global industry-state gambling complex | Addiction Research and Theory | 2015 | 74 |
| 50 | The two worlds of alcohol problems: Who is in treatment and who is not? | Addiction Research and Theory | 2008 | 72 |
