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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks685
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications347
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks217
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries215
FFORMPP: Feature-based forecast model performance prediction203
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series146
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples96
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement96
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques94
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model89
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach86
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting71
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets70
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency65
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring63
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage61
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content61
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions60
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue59
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks58
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202358
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament57
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination54
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations52
Forecasting intermittent time series with Gaussian Processes and Tweedie likelihood52
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk51
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies47
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity47
Editorial Board46
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition46
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy45
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts44
Improving forecast stability using deep learning43
Forecasting and policy when “we simply do not know”43
Forecasting football results and exploiting betting markets: The case of “both teams to score”42
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective41
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators37
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts37
Improving disaggregated short-term food inflation forecasts with webscraped data37
Machine learning and insurer failure prediction36
The M5 competition: Conclusions35
Forecasting: theory and practice33
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting33
Editorial Board32
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters31
Combining forecasts under structural breaks using Graphical LASSO31
Editorial Board31
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting31
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions30
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors28
Enhancing market return forecasts with an incident-based ESG indicator28
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling26
External forcings and predictability of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation: A model confidence set approach26
Could the Bank of England have avoided mis-forecasting UK inflation during 2021–24?26
Model combinations through revised base rates26
Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm25
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data25
A disaster response model driven by spatial–temporal forecasts25
Sequential optimization three-way decision model with information gain for credit default risk evaluation25
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification25
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice25
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych25
Forecasting corporate default risk in China24
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?24
When to be discrete: The importance of time formulation in the modeling of extreme events in finance23
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends23
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition23
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace22
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach22
Modeling and forecasting intraday spot volatility22
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility21
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties21
Forecasting with trees21
Whispers in the oil market: Exploring sentiment and uncertainty insights21
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models20
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence20
Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity20
Retail forecasting: Research and practice20
Editorial Board20
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts19
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations19
Reactions to the Bernanke Review from Bank of England watchers19
Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China19
Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement19
Targeting predictors in random forest regression19
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption18
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates18
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times18
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”18
Forecasting electoral violence18
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control18
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems18
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance17
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement17
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk17
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China17
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts16
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend16
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions16
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M615
A functional mixture prediction model for dynamically forecasting cumulative intraday returns of crude oil futures15
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model15
Editorial Board15
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data15
Beyond the numbers: The role of people and processes in central bank forecasting14
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models14
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies14
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data14
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data14
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids13
Jump persistence and temporal aggregation of tail risk13
On forecast stability13
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition13
Machine learning algorithms for forecasting and backcasting blood demand data with missing values and outliers: A study of Tema General Hospital of Ghana13
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model13
Integrating nowcasts into an ensemble of data-driven forecasting models for SARI hospitalizations in Germany13
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests13
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis12
Editorial Board12
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting12
Lee–Carter models: The wider context12
Forecast value added in demand planning12
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)12
Real-time hurricane damage nowcasts11
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–202311
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker11
Leveraging image-based generative adversarial networks for time series generation11
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts11
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks11
Relative performance of judgmental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects11
Realized volatility forecasting for new issues and spin-offs using multi-source transfer learning11
HARd to beat: The overlooked impact of rolling windows in the era of machine learning11
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning10
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts10
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks10
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer10
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting10
Editorial Board10
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs10
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term10
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation10
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
Deep switching state space model for nonlinear time series forecasting with regime switching10
Forecasting, causality and feedback9
A semi-supervised reject inference framework with hierarchical heterogeneous networks for credit scoring9
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution9
SCORE: A convolutional approach for football event forecasting9
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification9
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts9
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence9
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections9
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework9
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data9
Forecasting for monetary policy9
Forecasting electricity prices using bid data9
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals8
Ups and (draw) downs8
Hierarchical forecasting at scale8
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting8
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review8
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability8
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition8
Stochastic modelling of football matches using dynamic regressors8
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors8
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions8
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx8
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets8
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan8
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor8
Assessing cross-currency predictability in forex markets: Insights from limit order book data8
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting8
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates7
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing7
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data7
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition7
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model7
Editorial and introduction to the special section on the Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England’s forecasting activities7
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices7
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions7
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond7
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility7
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions7
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation7
Adaptive forecasting in dynamic markets: An evaluation of AutoTS within the M6 competition7
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation7
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts7
Anticipating special events in Emergency Department forecasting7
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach7
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
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks6
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features6
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts6
Nowcasting economic activity in European regions using a mixed-frequency dynamic factor model6
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same6
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks6
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
Data-based priors for vector error correction models6
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?6
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI6
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts5
Asymmetric models for realized covariances5
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles5
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques5
Special section on credit risk modelling—Guest editorial5
Cyberattack-resilient load forecasting with adaptive robust regression5
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies5
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models5
Beyond forecast leaderboards: Measuring individual model importance based on contribution to ensemble accuracy5
Stealing accuracy: Predicting day-ahead electricity prices with temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF)5
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network5
Does the consideration of market prices in model selection increase model profitability? Evidence from theory, artificial data and real-world data5
Book review5
Forecast reconciliation: A review5
Certainty amid uncertainty: Relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and individual expectations5
Guest Editorial: Forecasting for Social Good5
Evaluating quantile forecasts in the M5 uncertainty competition5
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition5
Eliciting expectation uncertainty from private households5
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making5
Combining predictive distributions for time-to-event outcomes in meteorology5
Coupling LSTM neural networks and state-space models through analytically tractable inference5
Nowcasting growth using Google Trends data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series model5
Conditionally optimal weights and forward-looking approaches to combining forecasts5
Service-level anchoring in demand forecasting: The moderating impact of retail promotions and product perishability5
Acknowledgement to reviewers4
Exploring the social influence of the Kaggle virtual community on the M5 competition4
Disaggregating VIX4
Outlier-robust methods for forecasting realized covariance matrices4
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model4
Financial-cycle ratios and medium-term predictions of GDP: Evidence from the United States4
Summarizing ensemble NWP forecasts for grid operators: Consistency, elicitability, and economic value4
Endemic-epidemic models with discrete-time serial interval distributions for infectious disease prediction4
Time-varying variance and skewness in realized volatility measures4
GoodsForecast second-place solution in M5 Uncertainty track: Combining heterogeneous models for a quantile estimation task4
How local is the local inflation factor? Evidence from emerging European countries4
Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review4
Distributed ARIMA models for ultra-long time series4
Carpe diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?4
Bayesian forecast combination using time-varying features4
Modeling and predicting failure in US credit unions4
Thinking outside the container: A sparse partial least squares approach to forecasting trade flows4
A tolerance-based framework for spatiotemporal forecast validation using the 4
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification4
A multi-task encoder-dual-decoder framework for mixed frequency data prediction4
Using stochastic hierarchical aggregation constraints to nowcast regional economic aggregates4
Predicting the equity premium around the globe: Comprehensive evidence from a large sample4
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations4
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