Critical Gambling Studies

Aims & Scope

Critical Gambling Studies (CGS) is an international journal established in 2019 to publish disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on gambling.

It aims to address urgent questions raised by the social, technological, legal, and cultural entanglements of contemporary gambling.

The open access, double-anonymous, peer-reviewed journal is published bi-annually.

We are open to different theoretical frameworks and methodological traditions, including: phenomenology; ethnography; meta-analysis and big data analytics; Black studies, critical race, and Indigenous studies; critical disability studies; science and technology studies (STS); conjunctural analysis; experimental studies; survey methods; fieldwork; semiotic analysis; psychoanalysis; political economy; narrative analysis; statistical analysis and quantitative methods; and archival research.

We welcome original research and writing from researchers working in disciplines including: philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, criminology, information science, aesthetics, history, economics, literature, theology, art history, architecture, tourism and leisure studies, public health, and law.

We are also keen to consider interdisciplinary approaches to gambling research within an activist tradition.

Our focus is primarily on original research in the humanities and social sciences (including law and policy studies), but we welcome accessible and critical work in medicine, life sciences, environmental sciences, and other disciplines.

While we warmly welcome critical and original work on gambling addictions, including that which interrogates concepts and measures of disordered or pathological gambling, we are keen to move beyond addiction research as the primary focus of gambling studies.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

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• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

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This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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