| The prevalence of loot boxes in mobile and desktop games D Zendle, R Meyer, P Cairns, S Waters, N Ballou Addiction 115 (9), 1768-1772, 2020 | 222 | 2020 |
| The changing face of desktop video game monetisation: An exploration of exposure to loot boxes, pay to win, and cosmetic microtransactions in the most-played Steam games of … D Zendle, R Meyer, N Ballou PloS one 15 (5), e0232780, 2020 | 147 | 2020 |
| A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms S Parsons, F Azevedo, MM Elsherif, S Guay, ON Shahim, GH Govaart, ... Nature human behaviour 6 (3), 312-318, 2022 | 118* | 2022 |
| A Large-Scale Study of Changes to the Quantity, Quality, and Distribution of Video Game Play During a Global Health Pandemic M Vuorre, D Zendle, E Petrovskaya, N Ballou, AK Przybylski Technology, Mind, and Behavior 2 (4), 2021 | 57* | 2021 |
| Self-determination theory in HCI: shaping a research agenda N Ballou, S Deterding, A Tyack, ED Mekler, RA Calvo, D Peters, ... CHI conference on human factors in computing systems extended abstracts, 1-6, 2022 | 41 | 2022 |
| “Clinically significant distress” in Internet Gaming Disorder: An individual participant meta-analysis N Ballou, D Zendle Computers in Human Behavior 129, 107140, 2022 | 32 | 2022 |
| The hidden intricacy of loot box design: A granular description of random monetized reward features N Ballou, CTT Gbadamosi, D Zendle DiGRA 10, 2020, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Do people use games to compensate for psychological needs during crises? A mixed-methods study of gaming during COVID-19 lockdowns N Ballou, S Deterding, I Iacovides, L Helsby Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry D Zendle, C Flick, E Gordon-Petrovskaya, N Ballou, LY Xiao, A Drachen Nature human behaviour 7 (10), 1753-1766, 2023 | 23 | 2023 |
| If everything is a loot box, nothing is: Response to Xiao et al D Zendle, P Cairns, R Meyer, S Waters, N Ballou Addiction 117 (9), 2555-2556, 2022 | 21* | 2022 |
| Reforms to improve reproducibility and quality must be coordinated across the research ecosystem: the view from the UKRN Local Network Leads SLK Stewart, CR Pennington, GR da Silva, N Ballou, J Butler, Z Dienes, ... BMC Research Notes 15 (1), 58, 2022 | 20* | 2022 |
| The Basic Needs in Games Scale (BANGS): A new tool for investigating positive and negative video game experiences N Ballou, A Denisova, R Ryan, CS Rigby, S Deterding International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 188, 103289, 2024 | 18 | 2024 |
| ‘I just wanted to get it over and done with’: a grounded theory of psychological need frustration in video games N Ballou, S Deterding Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction 7 (CHI PLAY), 217-236, 2023 | 18 | 2023 |
| Are you open? A content analysis of transparency and openness guidelines in HCI journals N Ballou, VR Warriar, S Deterding Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on human factors in computing systems …, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| The relationship between mental well-being and dysregulated gaming: a specification curve analysis of core and peripheral criteria in five gaming disorder scales N Ballou, AJ Van Rooij Royal Society Open Science 8 (5), 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| A manifesto for more productive psychological games research N Ballou ACM Games: Research and Practice 1 (1), 1-26, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Cross-cultural patterns in mobile playtime: an analysis of 118 billion hours of human data D Zendle, C Flick, D Halgarth, N Ballou, S Demediuk, A Drachen Scientific reports 13 (1), 386, 2023 | 15* | 2023 |
| Registered Report Evidence Suggests No Relationship Between Objectively Tracked Video Game Playtime and Well-Being Over 3 Months N Ballou, CJR Sewall, J Ratcliffe, D Zendle, L Tokarchuk, S Deterding Technology, Mind and Behavior 5 (1), 2024 | 10* | 2024 |
| Understanding whether lockdowns lead to increases in the heaviness of gaming using massive-scale data telemetry: an analysis of 251 billion hours of playtime D Zendle, C Flick, D Hargarth, N Ballou, J Cutting, A Drachen | 6 | 2022 |
| Four dilemmas for video game effects scholars: how digital trace data can improve the way we study games D Zendle, N Ballou, J Cutting, E Petrovskaya PsyArXiv, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |