International Journal of Forecasting

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Forecasting is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks420
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries242
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications236
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model230
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples160
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement106
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series106
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques102
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach98
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting89
Forecasting stock return distributions around the globe with quantile neural networks74
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks73
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage67
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency67
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue66
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition64
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202363
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament63
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity62
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies60
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination59
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations58
Forecasting intermittent time series with Gaussian Processes and Tweedie likelihood58
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets53
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks50
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions49
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content48
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring48
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk45
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts41
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy41
Machine learning and insurer failure prediction40
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts37
Forecasting and policy when “we simply do not know”37
Editorial Board37
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting35
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective35
Improving disaggregated short-term food inflation forecasts with webscraped data33
Improving forecast stability using deep learning32
The M5 competition: Conclusions32
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators29
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors28
Combining forecasts under structural breaks using Graphical LASSO28
Editorial Board28
Editorial Board28
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters28
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling26
Enhancing market return forecasts with an incident-based ESG indicator26
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data26
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice26
External forcings and predictability of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation: A model confidence set approach26
Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm26
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting25
Could the Bank of England have avoided mis-forecasting UK inflation during 2021–24?25
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions25
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace24
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification24
Model combinations through revised base rates24
Whispers in the oil market: Exploring sentiment and uncertainty insights23
When to be discrete: The importance of time formulation in the modeling of extreme events in finance23
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition23
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?23
Modeling and forecasting intraday spot volatility23
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility22
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych22
Forecasting with trees22
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends22
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach22
Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity21
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties21
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence21
Retail forecasting: Research and practice21
Editorial Board20
Targeting predictors in random forest regression19
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models19
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations19
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times18
Reactions to the Bernanke Review from Bank of England watchers18
Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement18
Forecasting electoral violence18
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems17
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts17
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates16
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance16
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement16
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”16
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control16
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption16
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk16
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts15
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models15
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data15
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China15
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests15
Editorial Board15
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions15
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model15
Jump persistence and temporal aggregation of tail risk14
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data14
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data14
Beyond the numbers: The role of people and processes in central bank forecasting14
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend14
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies14
On forecast stability14
A functional mixture prediction model for dynamically forecasting cumulative intraday returns of crude oil futures14
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model14
Forecast value added in demand planning14
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition14
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis13
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M613
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting13
Integrating nowcasts into an ensemble of data-driven forecasting models for SARI hospitalizations in Germany13
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)13
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids13
Lee–Carter models: The wider context12
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–202312
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts12
HARd to beat: The overlooked impact of rolling windows in the era of machine learning12
Real-time hurricane damage nowcasts12
Realized volatility forecasting for new issues and spin-offs using multi-source transfer learning12
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks11
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks11
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning11
The probability conflation: A reply to Tetlock et al.11
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting11
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker11
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts11
Deep switching state space model for nonlinear time series forecasting with regime switching11
Leveraging image-based generative adversarial networks for time series generation11
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation11
Editorial Board11
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer10
Long short-term memory network with adapted attention mechanism for credit risk modeling10
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term10
Forecasting electricity prices using bid data10
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections10
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk10
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs10
Forecasting for monetary policy10
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence9
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework9
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan9
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition9
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting9
SCORE: A convolutional approach for football event forecasting9
Forecasting, causality and feedback9
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data9
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets9
Ups and (draw) downs9
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability9
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification9
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution9
A semi-supervised reject inference framework with hierarchical heterogeneous networks for credit scoring9
Assessing cross-currency predictability in forex markets: Insights from limit order book data9
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors9
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts9
Hierarchical forecasting at scale8
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting8
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions8
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices8
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing8
Stochastic modelling of football matches using dynamic regressors8
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals8
Adaptive forecasting in dynamic markets: An evaluation of AutoTS within the M6 competition8
Book review8
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review8
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor8
Enforcing tail calibration when training probabilistic forecast models8
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx8
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility8
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond8
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition7
Editorial and introduction to the special section on the Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England’s forecasting activities7
Nowcasting economic activity in European regions using a mixed-frequency dynamic factor model7
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network7
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features7
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts7
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates7
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model7
Data-based priors for vector error correction models7
Corrigendum to “The behaviour of betting and currency markets on the night of the EU referendum” [Int. J. Forecast. 35 (1) (2018) 371–389]7
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions7
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions7
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation7
Evaluation of the best M4 competition methods for small area population forecasting7
Do we want coherent hierarchical forecasts, or minimal MAPEs or MAEs? (We won’t get both!)7
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data7
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts6
Stealing accuracy: Predicting day-ahead electricity prices with temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF)6
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI6
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition6
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks6
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks6
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach6
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles6
Asymmetric models for realized covariances6
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation6
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?6
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same6
Combining predictive distributions for time-to-event outcomes in meteorology6
Local summer temperature dynamics: Bayesian Markov-switching to forecast annual frequency and duration of heat waves5
Book review5
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations5
Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review5
A multi-task encoder-dual-decoder framework for mixed frequency data prediction5
Conditionally optimal weights and forward-looking approaches to combining forecasts5
Eliciting expectation uncertainty from private households5
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making5
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts5
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models5
Financial-cycle ratios and medium-term predictions of GDP: Evidence from the United States5
Forecast reconciliation: A review5
Outlier-robust methods for forecasting realized covariance matrices5
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques5
Coupling LSTM neural networks and state-space models through analytically tractable inference5
Evaluating quantile forecasts in the M5 uncertainty competition5
Certainty amid uncertainty: Relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and individual expectations5
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies5
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model5
Distributed ARIMA models for ultra-long time series5
Nowcasting growth using Google Trends data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series model5
Service-level anchoring in demand forecasting: The moderating impact of retail promotions and product perishability5
Beyond forecast leaderboards: Measuring individual model importance based on contribution to ensemble accuracy5
Does the consideration of market prices in model selection increase model profitability? Evidence from theory, artificial data and real-world data5
Modeling and predicting failure in US credit unions4
Bayesian forecast combination using time-varying features4
Carpe diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?4
Summarizing ensemble NWP forecasts for grid operators: Consistency, elicitability, and economic value4
GoodsForecast second-place solution in M5 Uncertainty track: Combining heterogeneous models for a quantile estimation task4
A framework for timely and accessible long-term forecasting of shale gas production based on time series pattern matching4
Forecasting soccer matches with betting odds: A tale of two markets4
Generalized βARMA model for double bounded time series forecasting4
Using stochastic hierarchical aggregation constraints to nowcast regional economic aggregates4
Disaggregating VIX4
A tolerance-based framework for spatiotemporal forecast validation using the 4
Time-varying variance and skewness in realized volatility measures4
Editorial Board4
Exploring the social influence of the Kaggle virtual community on the M5 competition4
A theory-based method to evaluate the impact of central bank inflation forecasts on private inflation expectations4
Do professionals’ inflation forecasts incorporate the beliefs of others? A functional data approach4
Predicting the equity premium around the globe: Comprehensive evidence from a large sample4
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification4
How local is the local inflation factor? Evidence from emerging European countries4
Acknowledgement to reviewers4
Quantifying subjective uncertainty in survey expectations4
Testing the predictive accuracy of COVID-19 forecasts4
Quantile-based modeling of scale dynamics in financial returns for Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall forecasting4
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