International Journal of Forecasting

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Forecasting is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks1265
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series544
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model249
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement236
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications181
FFORMPP: Feature-based forecast model performance prediction143
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries140
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples138
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach126
Forecasting the Covid-19 recession and recovery: Lessons from the financial crisis116
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques98
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting77
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks76
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202375
Short-term forecasting of the coronavirus pandemic74
Forecasting government support in Irish general elections: Opinion polls and structural models72
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue67
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition58
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity58
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency58
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions57
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring56
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations56
Macroeconomic data transformations matter56
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament52
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies52
Nonparametric expected shortfall forecasting incorporating weighted quantiles52
Dynamic factor models with clustered loadings: Forecasting education flows using unemployment data51
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination50
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks47
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage47
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content45
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets44
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk42
Forecasting football results and exploiting betting markets: The case of “both teams to score”41
Editorial Board41
The M5 competition: Conclusions39
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts39
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy36
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts36
Improving forecast stability using deep learning35
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective35
Forecasting and policy when “we simply do not know”35
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting34
Forecasting multiparty by-elections using Dirichlet regression33
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators32
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters31
Editorial Board31
Forecasting: theory and practice31
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors30
Editorial Board29
Model combinations through revised base rates29
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting28
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data28
Combining forecasts under structural breaks using Graphical LASSO28
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions27
Modelling non-stationary ‘Big Data’27
Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm26
Sequential optimization three-way decision model with information gain for credit default risk evaluation26
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice26
A disaster response model driven by spatial–temporal forecasts25
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling25
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace24
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych24
Enhancing capacity planning through forecasting: An integrated tool for maintenance of complex product systems23
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends23
Forecasting with trees23
Forecasting corporate default risk in China23
Mixed random forest, cointegration, and forecasting gasoline prices22
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility22
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?22
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition22
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties22
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification22
When to be discrete: The importance of time formulation in the modeling of extreme events in finance21
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach21
Retail forecasting: Research and practice21
Editorial Board20
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence20
Hawkes process modeling of COVID-19 with mobility leading indicators and spatial covariates20
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times19
Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China19
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption19
Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity19
Spurious relationships in high-dimensional systems with strong or mild persistence19
Combining forecasts for universally optimal performance19
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models19
Targeting predictors in random forest regression19
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations18
Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement18
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts18
Reactions to the Bernanke Review from Bank of England watchers18
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems18
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control17
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates17
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement17
Temporal Fusion Transformers for interpretable multi-horizon time series forecasting17
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance16
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”16
Sparse estimation of dynamic principal components for forecasting high-dimensional time series16
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk16
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend15
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts15
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions15
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China15
Guest Editorial: Food and Agriculture Forecasting14
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data14
Machine learning algorithms for forecasting and backcasting blood demand data with missing values and outliers: A study of Tema General Hospital of Ghana14
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests14
A functional mixture prediction model for dynamically forecasting cumulative intraday returns of crude oil futures14
Editorial Board14
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M614
Guest editorial: Economic forecasting in times of COVID-1914
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies14
Forecast value added in demand planning14
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model13
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model13
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids13
Editorial Board12
Predicting monthly biofuel production using a hybrid ensemble forecasting methodology12
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data12
Lee–Carter models: The wider context12
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models12
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition12
Editorial Board12
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data12
On forecast stability12
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker11
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks11
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting11
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–202311
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)11
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis11
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting11
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts11
Relative performance of judgmental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects11
HARd to beat: The overlooked impact of rolling windows in the era of machine learning11
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts10
The probability conflation: A reply to Tetlock et al.10
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk10
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation10
Editorial Board10
Deep switching state space model for nonlinear time series forecasting with regime switching10
Volatility forecasting in European government bond markets10
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning10
Editorial Board10
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs10
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer10
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term9
Robustness and the general dynamic factor model with infinite-dimensional space: Identification, estimation, and forecasting9
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks9
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework9
Comparing probabilistic forecasts of the daily minimum and maximum temperature9
Forecasting electricity prices using bid data9
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections9
SCORE: A convolutional approach for football event forecasting9
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data8
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts8
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan8
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets8
A new method to assess the degree of information rigidity using fixed-event forecasts8
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations8
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution8
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification8
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors8
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability8
A semi-supervised reject inference framework with hierarchical heterogeneous networks for credit scoring8
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence8
Forecasting, causality and feedback8
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition8
Hierarchical forecasting at scale8
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor7
Crude oil price forecasting incorporating news text7
Short-term Covid-19 forecast for latecomers7
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx7
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility7
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals7
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions7
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting7
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review7
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data7
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting7
Ups and (draw) downs7
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model6
Optimal combination of Arctic sea ice extent measures: A dynamic factor modeling approach6
High-frequency monitoring of growth at risk6
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach6
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation6
Data-based priors for vector error correction models6
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices6
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing6
On single point forecasts for fat-tailed variables6
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation6
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts6
Evaluation of the best M4 competition methods for small area population forecasting6
Do we want coherent hierarchical forecasts, or minimal MAPEs or MAEs? (We won’t get both!)6
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions6
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond6
Anticipating special events in Emergency Department forecasting6
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions6
Adaptive forecasting in dynamic markets: An evaluation of AutoTS within the M6 competition6
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?6
Corrigendum to “The behaviour of betting and currency markets on the night of the EU referendum” [Int. J. Forecast. 35 (1) (2018) 371–389]6
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition6
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI5
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks5
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features5
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same5
Modeling high-dimensional unit-root time series5
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts5
Transparent modeling of influenza incidence: Big data or a single data point from psychological theory?5
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks5
Epidemiological versus meteorological forecasts: Best practice for linking models to policymaking5
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network5
Eliciting expectation uncertainty from private households5
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles5
Evaluating quantile forecasts in the M5 uncertainty competition5
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques5
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates5
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts5
COVID-19: Forecasting confirmed cases and deaths with a simple time series model5
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition5
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making5
Dynamic logistic regression and variable selection: Forecasting and contextualizing civil unrest5
Forecasting loss given default for peer-to-peer loans via heterogeneous stacking ensemble approach5
Modeling and predicting failure in US credit unions4
Disaggregating VIX4
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models4
Book review4
A multi-task encoder-dual-decoder framework for mixed frequency data prediction4
Conditionally optimal weights and forward-looking approaches to combining forecasts4
Bayesian forecast combination using time-varying features4
Outlier-robust methods for forecasting realized covariance matrices4
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification4
Financial-cycle ratios and medium-term predictions of GDP: Evidence from the United States4
Nowcasting growth using Google Trends data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series model4
Service-level anchoring in demand forecasting: The moderating impact of retail promotions and product perishability4
Special section on credit risk modelling—Guest editorial4
Forecast reconciliation: A review4
Distributed ARIMA models for ultra-long time series4
Using stochastic hierarchical aggregation constraints to nowcast regional economic aggregates4
The kernel trick for nonlinear factor modeling4
Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review4
Cyberattack-resilient load forecasting with adaptive robust regression4
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies4
Coupling LSTM neural networks and state-space models through analytically tractable inference4
Guest Editorial: Forecasting for Social Good4
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model4
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations4
Bayesian estimation of a multivariate TAR model when the noise process distribution belongs to the class of Gaussian variance mixtures3
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