The first academic journal focused on gambling, it was established in 1985 as the Journal of Gambling Behavior, obtaining its current name in 1990.

It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is James P. Whelan (University of Memphis).

Previous editors were Henry R. Lesieur (1985 to 1996), Howard J. Shaffer (1997 to 2002) and Jon E. Grant (2003 to 2025).

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