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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks701
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries364
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques225
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement223
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications207
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach150
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model99
FFORMPP: Feature-based forecast model performance prediction97
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples97
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series92
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks86
Forecasting stock return distributions around the globe with quantile neural networks72
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting71
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency66
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content65
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage62
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions62
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue60
Forecasting intermittent time series with Gaussian Processes and Tweedie likelihood59
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies59
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition59
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity58
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202355
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks54
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament54
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations53
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets53
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination49
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring47
Editorial Board46
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk46
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts45
Forecasting and policy when “we simply do not know”45
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy45
Improving forecast stability using deep learning45
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective43
Machine learning and insurer failure prediction37
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting37
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators37
The M5 competition: Conclusions37
Forecasting football results and exploiting betting markets: The case of “both teams to score”36
Forecasting: theory and practice34
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting33
Editorial Board33
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts33
Combining forecasts under structural breaks using Graphical LASSO32
Editorial Board31
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters31
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions31
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors29
Enhancing market return forecasts with an incident-based ESG indicator28
Could the Bank of England have avoided mis-forecasting UK inflation during 2021–24?28
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling27
Model combinations through revised base rates27
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data26
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
External forcings and predictability of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation: A model confidence set approach26
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification26
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice26
Forecasting corporate default risk in China25
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition25
A disaster response model driven by spatial–temporal forecasts25
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends24
Whispers in the oil market: Exploring sentiment and uncertainty insights24
When to be discrete: The importance of time formulation in the modeling of extreme events in finance24
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace24
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties24
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach23
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych23
Forecasting with trees22
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?22
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility22
Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity21
Retail forecasting: Research and practice21
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence21
Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China20
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models20
Targeting predictors in random forest regression20
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations20
Editorial Board20
Reactions to the Bernanke Review from Bank of England watchers19
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption19
Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement19
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times19
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems19
Forecasting electoral violence19
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance18
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates18
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China18
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”18
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts18
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk18
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control18
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions17
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M617
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement17
Editorial Board17
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts17
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model16
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data15
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests15
Beyond the numbers: The role of people and processes in central bank forecasting15
Machine learning algorithms for forecasting and backcasting blood demand data with missing values and outliers: A study of Tema General Hospital of Ghana15
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data15
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data15
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models15
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids14
Forecast value added in demand planning14
On forecast stability14
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model14
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend14
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition14
A functional mixture prediction model for dynamically forecasting cumulative intraday returns of crude oil futures14
Editorial Board13
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies13
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting13
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis13
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)13
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning13
Relative performance of judgmental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects12
HARd to beat: The overlooked impact of rolling windows in the era of machine learning12
Leveraging image-based generative adversarial networks for time series generation12
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–202312
Real-time hurricane damage nowcasts12
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks12
Lee–Carter models: The wider context12
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts12
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting11
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts11
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs11
Deep switching state space model for nonlinear time series forecasting with regime switching11
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker11
Editorial Board11
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk11
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation11
The probability conflation: A reply to Tetlock et al.11
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer11
SCORE: A convolutional approach for football event forecasting10
Forecasting electricity prices using bid data10
A semi-supervised reject inference framework with hierarchical heterogeneous networks for credit scoring10
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term10
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections10
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework10
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data10
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks10
Forecasting, causality and feedback10
Forecasting for monetary policy10
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification10
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition9
Ups and (draw) downs9
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence9
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts9
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan9
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution9
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets9
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx9
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability9
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor8
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors8
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals8
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing8
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition8
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation8
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting8
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting8
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions8
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond8
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility8
Anticipating special events in Emergency Department forecasting8
Stochastic modelling of football matches using dynamic regressors8
Hierarchical forecasting at scale8
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review8
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts8
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model8
Adaptive forecasting in dynamic markets: An evaluation of AutoTS within the M6 competition8
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach7
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions7
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
Data-based priors for vector error correction models7
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features7
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions7
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices7
Evaluation of the best M4 competition methods for small area population forecasting7
Stealing accuracy: Predicting day-ahead electricity prices with temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF)7
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts7
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data7
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates7
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
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network7
Do we want coherent hierarchical forecasts, or minimal MAPEs or MAEs? (We won’t get both!)7
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks6
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation6
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition6
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles6
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?6
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks6
Eliciting expectation uncertainty from private households6
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques6
Does the consideration of market prices in model selection increase model profitability? Evidence from theory, artificial data and real-world data6
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same6
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI6
Combining predictive distributions for time-to-event outcomes in meteorology6
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts6
Asymmetric models for realized covariances6
Financial-cycle ratios and medium-term predictions of GDP: Evidence from the United States5
Service-level anchoring in demand forecasting: The moderating impact of retail promotions and product perishability5
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models5
Book review5
Guest Editorial: Forecasting for Social Good5
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model5
Outlier-robust methods for forecasting realized covariance matrices5
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations5
Certainty amid uncertainty: Relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and individual expectations5
Conditionally optimal weights and forward-looking approaches to combining forecasts5
Local summer temperature dynamics: Bayesian Markov-switching to forecast annual frequency and duration of heat waves5
Evaluating quantile forecasts in the M5 uncertainty competition5
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making5
Coupling LSTM neural networks and state-space models through analytically tractable inference5
Distributed ARIMA models for ultra-long time series5
Endemic-epidemic models with discrete-time serial interval distributions for infectious disease prediction5
Modeling and predicting failure in US credit unions5
Forecast reconciliation: A review5
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies5
A multi-task encoder-dual-decoder framework for mixed frequency data prediction5
Special section on credit risk modelling—Guest editorial5
Cyberattack-resilient load forecasting with adaptive robust regression5
Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review5
A tolerance-based framework for spatiotemporal forecast validation using the 5
Predicting the equity premium around the globe: Comprehensive evidence from a large sample5
Nowcasting growth using Google Trends data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series model5
Testing the predictive accuracy of COVID-19 forecasts4
Forecasting soccer matches with betting odds: A tale of two markets4
Bayesian estimation of a multivariate TAR model when the noise process distribution belongs to the class of Gaussian variance mixtures4
Bayesian forecast combination using time-varying features4
Exploring the social influence of the Kaggle virtual community on the M5 competition4
Carpe diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?4
Editorial Board4
A data-driven approach to forecasting ground-level ozone concentration4
A theory-based method to evaluate the impact of central bank inflation forecasts on private inflation expectations4
Summarizing ensemble NWP forecasts for grid operators: Consistency, elicitability, and economic value4
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification4
Quantifying subjective uncertainty in survey expectations4
DCC- and DECO-HEAVY: Multivariate GARCH models based on realized variances and correlations4
Generalized Poisson difference autoregressive processes4
A framework for timely and accessible long-term forecasting of shale gas production based on time series pattern matching4
Using stochastic hierarchical aggregation constraints to nowcast regional economic aggregates4
GoodsForecast second-place solution in M5 Uncertainty track: Combining heterogeneous models for a quantile estimation task4
Forecasting emergency department occupancy with advanced machine learning models and multivariable input4
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