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Zsolt Demetrovics

Zsolt Demetrovics

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
94
Citations
32857
World Ranking
814
National Ranking
39

Zsolt Demetrovics publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zsolt Demetrovics sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 609 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Zsolt Demetrovics D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zsolt Demetrovics sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Zsolt Demetrovics is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and has a significant body of research primarily spanning psychology and social sciences. Their work covers 402 publications in psychology and 279 in social sciences, indicating a broad and interdisciplinary approach.

Their research is detailed across several subfields, including clinical psychology with 239 publications, sociology and political science with 157, social psychology with 64, gender studies with 51, and experimental and cognitive psychology with 47. This variety reflects a focus on behavioral, social, and psychological dimensions of human phenomena.

Demetrovics's main topics of scholarly work center on the impact of technology on adolescents, sexuality and behavior related to technology, gambling behavior and its treatments, gender and media studies, child development in the context of digital technologies, eating disorders, and behavioral health interventions. These topics suggest an emphasis on how technology intersects with a range of psychological and social issues.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, including several recent papers such as:

  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance (2020), published in Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of "other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors"? (2020), Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review (2020), Clinical Psychology Review
  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study (2021), Addiction
  • High-Frequency Pornography Use May Not Always Be Problematic (2020), The Journal of Sexual Medicine

In addition to journal articles, Demetrovics has authored books published by Frontiers Media and Akadémiai Kiadó, including "Online Psychology Beyond Addiction and Gaming: A Global Look at Mental Health and Internet-Related Technologies" (2022) and "A droghasználat funkciói" (2022).

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Behavioral Addictions (38 publications), PsycTESTS Dataset (24), International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (19), Comprehensive Psychiatry (18), and PLoS ONE (14).

Prominent frequent co-authors include Beáta Bőthe, Mark D. Griffiths, Marc N. Potenza, Orsolya Király, and Róbert Urbán. Collaboration with these authors reflects active engagement with researchers specializing in behavioral addictions, clinical psychology, and related fields.

Best Publications

  • The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: a large-scale cross-sectional study

    Cecilie Schou Andreassen;Joël Billieux;Mark D. Griffiths;Daria J. Kuss

  • Problematic Social Media Use: Results from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample

    Fanni Bányai;Ágnes Zsila;Orsolya Király;Aniko Maraz

  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance.

    Orsolya Király;Marc N. Potenza;Dan J. Stein;Daniel L. King

  • Social networking addiction: an overview of preliminary findings

    Mark D. Griffiths;Daria J. Kuss;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • The three-factor model of Internet addiction: the development of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire.

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Beatrix Szeredi;Sándor Rózsa

  • The conceptualisation and measurement of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder: the development of the IGD-20 Test.

    Halley M. Pontes;Orsolya Király;Zsolt Demetrovics;Mark D. Griffiths

  • Why do you play? The development of the motives for online gaming questionnaire (MOGQ)

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Róbert Urbán;Katalin Nagygyörgy;Judit Farkas

  • Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder: a critical commentary on Petry et al (2014)

    Mark D. Griffiths;Antonius J. Van Rooij;Daniel Kardefelt-Winther;Vladan Starcevic

  • Exercise Addiction: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Etiology

    Krisztina Berczik;Attila Szabó;Mark D Griffiths;Tamás Kurimay

  • Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample

    Orsolya Király;Mark D. Griffiths;Róbert Urbán;Judit Farkas

  • The Psychology of Esports: A Systematic Literature Review

    Fanni Bányai;Mark D Griffiths;Orsolya Király;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Validation of the ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and evaluation of the nine DSM-5 internet gaming disorder criteria

    Orsolya Király;Pawel Sleczka;Halley M. Pontes;Róbert Urbán

  • Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”?

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Hans-JÜrgen Rumpf;Zsolt Demetrovics;Astrid MÜller

  • How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with "smartphone addiction"?

    Christian Montag;Christian Montag;Elisa Wegmann;Rayna Sariyska;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone; 'meow meow'): chemical, pharmacological and clinical issues.

    Fabrizio Schifano;Fabrizio Schifano;Antonio Albanese;Suzanne Fergus;Jackie L. Stair

  • The prevalence of compulsive buying: a meta-analysis.

    Aniko Maraz;Mark D. Griffiths;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review.

    Daniel L. King;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Natacha Carragher;Joel Billieux

  • Emotional intelligence and addictions: a systematic review.

    Bernadette Kun;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Manifesto for a European research network into Problematic Usage of the Internet.

    N A Fineberg;N A Fineberg;N A Fineberg;Z Demetrovics;D J Stein;K Ioannidis

  • Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective.

    Hans Jürgen Rumpf;Sophia Achab;Sophia Achab;Joël Billieux;Henrietta Bowden-Jones

  • The Development of the Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ)

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Róbert Urbán;Katalin Nagygyörgy;Judit Farkas

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University
Róbert Urbán
Róbert Urbán Eötvös Loránd University
Gyöngyi Kökönyei
Gyöngyi Kökönyei Eötvös Loránd University
Attila Szabo
Attila Szabo Eötvös Loránd University
Ornella Corazza
Ornella Corazza University of Trento
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Wim van den Brink
Wim van den Brink University of Amsterdam
Daniel King
Daniel King Flinders University
Kenneth Blum
Kenneth Blum University of Florida

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