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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks1020
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples475
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries235
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series205
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting156
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model128
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement111
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks110
Forecasting the Covid-19 recession and recovery: Lessons from the financial crisis105
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach105
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications81
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques68
FFORMPP: Feature-based forecast model performance prediction66
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202363
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue62
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks58
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage54
Short-term forecasting of the coronavirus pandemic52
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets51
Forecasting government support in Irish general elections: Opinion polls and structural models50
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions50
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination49
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency49
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity48
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk48
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament47
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations46
Nonparametric expected shortfall forecasting incorporating weighted quantiles45
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content45
Dynamic factor models with clustered loadings: Forecasting education flows using unemployment data44
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring44
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies43
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition42
Macroeconomic data transformations matter42
Forecasting football results and exploiting betting markets: The case of “both teams to score”41
Engaging research with practice — An invited editorial39
Editorial Board38
The M5 competition: Conclusions37
Forecasting macroeconomic risks34
Forecasting multiparty by-elections using Dirichlet regression33
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy32
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts32
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective32
Forecasting: theory and practice30
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators30
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting30
Improving forecast stability using deep learning30
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts29
Editorial Board29
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors28
Editorial Board28
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters28
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions28
Dimensionality reduction in forecasting with temporal hierarchies27
Model combinations through revised base rates27
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data27
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles27
Penalized maximum likelihood estimation of logit-based early warning systems26
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling26
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting25
Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm25
Sequential optimization three-way decision model with information gain for credit default risk evaluation23
Modelling non-stationary ‘Big Data’22
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification22
A disaster response model driven by spatial–temporal forecasts22
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice22
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace21
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition21
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends21
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties21
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles20
Mixed random forest, cointegration, and forecasting gasoline prices20
Enhancing capacity planning through forecasting: An integrated tool for maintenance of complex product systems19
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?19
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach19
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych19
Forecasting corporate default risk in China19
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility19
Editorial Board18
Retail forecasting: Research and practice18
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles18
Forecasting with trees18
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models18
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence18
Hawkes process modeling of COVID-19 with mobility leading indicators and spatial covariates17
Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China17
Targeting predictors in random forest regression16
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption16
Combining forecasts for universally optimal performance16
Measuring and forecasting retail trade in real time using card transactional data16
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts16
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times16
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems16
Spurious relationships in high-dimensional systems with strong or mild persistence16
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations15
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”15
Temporal Fusion Transformers for interpretable multi-horizon time series forecasting15
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control15
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates14
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement14
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk14
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China14
Sparse estimation of dynamic principal components for forecasting high-dimensional time series14
A stochastic differential equation approach to the analysis of the 2017 and 2019 UK general election polls14
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts14
Guest Editorial: Food and Agriculture Forecasting13
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model13
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance13
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data13
Forecast value added in demand planning13
Stock market volatility forecasting: Do we need high-frequency data?13
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions13
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend13
Forecasting exchange rates with elliptically symmetric principal components12
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data12
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model12
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids12
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models12
Guest editorial: Economic forecasting in times of COVID-1912
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M611
Machine learning algorithms for forecasting and backcasting blood demand data with missing values and outliers: A study of Tema General Hospital of Ghana11
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data11
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests11
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition11
Editorial Board11
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies11
Editorial Board11
On forecast stability11
Predicting monthly biofuel production using a hybrid ensemble forecasting methodology11
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)10
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting10
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting10
Editorial Board10
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles10
Lee–Carter models: The wider context10
Relative performance of judgmental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects9
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning9
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–20239
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks9
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis9
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles9
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation8
Discrete Gompertz equation and model selection between Gompertz and logistic models8
Editorial Board8
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer8
The probability conflation: A reply to Tetlock et al.8
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts8
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts8
Forecasting electricity prices using bid data8
Volatility forecasting in European government bond markets8
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker8
Editorial Board8
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk8
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term7
Forecasting, causality and feedback7
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework7
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts7
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability7
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence7
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting7
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs7
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks7
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data7
A semi-supervised reject inference framework with hierarchical heterogeneous networks for credit scoring7
Robustness and the general dynamic factor model with infinite-dimensional space: Identification, estimation, and forecasting7
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations7
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals7
Interpretable sports team rating models based on the gradient descent algorithm7
SCORE: A convolutional approach for football event forecasting7
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections7
Comparing probabilistic forecasts of the daily minimum and maximum temperature7
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution7
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification7
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition7
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx6
Optimal combination of Arctic sea ice extent measures: A dynamic factor modeling approach6
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review6
A new method to assess the degree of information rigidity using fixed-event forecasts6
Crude oil price forecasting incorporating news text6
Short-term Covid-19 forecast for latecomers6
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions6
Editorial Board6
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets6
Hierarchical forecasting at scale6
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting6
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation6
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor6
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors6
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan6
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data5
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model5
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions5
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility5
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts5
COVID-19: Forecasting confirmed cases and deaths with a simple time series model5
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation5
On single point forecasts for fat-tailed variables5
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions5
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statement in previously published article5
Anticipating special events in Emergency Department forecasting5
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks5
Corrigendum to “The behaviour of betting and currency markets on the night of the EU referendum” [Int. J. Forecast. 35 (1) (2018) 371–389]5
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network5
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond5
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing5
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition5
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices5
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles5
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?5
High-frequency monitoring of growth at risk5
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles4
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates4
Data-based priors for vector error correction models4
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI4
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts4
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition4
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques4
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making4
Do we want coherent hierarchical forecasts, or minimal MAPEs or MAEs? (We won’t get both!)4
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach4
Epidemiological versus meteorological forecasts: Best practice for linking models to policymaking4
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same4
Dynamic logistic regression and variable selection: Forecasting and contextualizing civil unrest4
Forecasting loss given default for peer-to-peer loans via heterogeneous stacking ensemble approach4
Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles4
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks4
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features4
Evaluation of the best M4 competition methods for small area population forecasting4
Transparent modeling of influenza incidence: Big data or a single data point from psychological theory?4
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts4
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model3
Distributed ARIMA models for ultra-long time series3
Financial-cycle ratios and medium-term predictions of GDP: Evidence from the United States3
Predicting the equity premium around the globe: Comprehensive evidence from a large sample3
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models3
Modeling high-dimensional unit-root time series3
A comparison of monthly global indicators for forecasting growth3
How local is the local inflation factor? Evidence from emerging European countries3
Summarizing ensemble NWP forecasts for grid operators: Consistency, elicitability, and economic value3
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations3
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification3
Forecast reconciliation: A review3
Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review3
Using stochastic hierarchical aggregation constraints to nowcast regional economic aggregates3
Endemic-epidemic models with discrete-time serial interval distributions for infectious disease prediction3
Outlier-robust methods for forecasting realized covariance matrices3
Disaggregating VIX3
Carpe diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?3
Modeling and predicting failure in US credit unions3
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies3
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