International Gambling Studies

International Gambling Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal in gambling studies. Launched by a team of international experts with a commitment to the highest scholarly standards, International Gambling Studies adopts a transnational and comparative approach to the challenges posed by the global expansion of gambling in the 21st century.International Gambling Studies seeks to:be a leading voice for analysis and research in gambling studies, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice and history of gambling;encourage the application of perspectives from all social sciences including sociology, psychology, anthropology, statistics, economics, education, history, law, political science, community studies, management, industrial relations, leisure and tourism studies;overcome the divide between the theory and empirical research;advance excellence in gambling studies by integrating academic and industry perspectives, encouraging comparative studies and critical analysisencourage articles that offer a new theoretical argument, provide new data or use an innovative methodological approach or mode of analysis;give theoretical and analytical expression to the intellectual and policy challenges in contemporary gambling;enhance the public relevance of gambling studies in the context of contemporary society and global economic development; and,appeal to a wide readership, while contributing to new developments at the cutting edge of theory and method, the journal will be broadly accessible to practitioners, students and policy makers.International Gambling Studies accepts original manuscripts including empirical research, review and commentary papers. In addition authors may submit Letters to the Editor that will encourage scholarly debate including publishing readers' responses to individual articles. Peer Review StatementAll research, review and commentary articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and detailed review by at least two anonymous referees. All other contributions have undergone editorial screening and review.

International Gambling Studies期刊中文简介

《国际赌博研究》是一本经同行评审的赌博研究跨学科期刊。国际赌博研究由一群致力于最高学术标准的国际专家发起，采用跨国和比较的方法来应对21世纪全球赌博扩张所带来的挑战。国际赌博研究旨在:主导赌博研究分析与研究，介绍赌博理论、方法、实践与历史;鼓励应用社会科学的观点，包括社会学、心理学、人类学、统计学、经济学、教育学、历史学、法学、政治学、社区研究、管理学、劳资关系、休閒及旅游学;克服理论与实证研究的鸿沟;整合学术及业界观点，鼓励比较研究及批判性分析，务求在赌博研究方面精益求精鼓励提供新的理论论据、提供新的数据或使用创新的方法论方法或分析模式的文章;以理论和分析的方式表达当代赌博活动中所面临的智力和政策挑战;在当代社会和全球经济发展的背景下，提高赌博研究的公共相关性;而且,吸引广大读者，同时促进前沿理论和方法的新发展，该杂志将广泛地提供给实践者，学生和政策制定者。国际赌博研究接受包括实证研究、评论和评论论文在内的原稿。此外，作者可以向编辑提交鼓励学术辩论的信件，包括发表读者对个别文章的回应。同行评审的声明本期刊的所有研究、评论和评论文章都经过严格的同行评审，评审基于最初的编辑筛选和至少两名匿名评审人员的详细评审。所有其他贡献都经过编辑筛选和审查。