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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks623
Adaptively aggregated forecast for exponential family panel model294
Blending gradient boosted trees and neural networks for point and probabilistic forecasting of hierarchical time series256
FFORMPP: Feature-based forecast model performance prediction192
Systemic bias of IMF reserve and debt forecasts for program countries187
An overview of the effects of algorithm use on judgmental biases affecting forecasting165
FRED-SD: A real-time database for state-level data with forecasting applications142
Survey density forecast comparison in small samples125
Towards a real-time prediction of waiting times in emergency departments: A comparative analysis of machine learning techniques123
Portfolio selection under non-gaussianity and systemic risk: A machine learning based forecasting approach87
Fan charts 2.0: Flexible forecast distributions with expert judgement86
Forecasting the Covid-19 recession and recovery: Lessons from the financial crisis81
Forecasting stock market volatility with regime-switching GARCH-MIDAS: The role of geopolitical risks80
A survey of models and methods used for forecasting when investing in financial markets80
The profitability of lead–lag arbitrage at high frequency77
The decrease in confidence with forecast extremity67
Short-term forecasting of the coronavirus pandemic66
Guest editorial: In memory of Professor John Edward Boylan, 1959–202362
Responses to the discussions and commentaries of the M5 Special Issue61
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament61
Nonparametric expected shortfall forecasting incorporating weighted quantiles61
A time-varying skewness model for Growth-at-Risk60
Multi-population mortality projection: The augmented common factor model with structural breaks58
Forecasting intermittent time series with Gaussian Processes and Tweedie likelihood58
A fast and scalable ensemble of global models with long memory and data partitioning for the M5 forecasting competition57
Machine learning applications in hierarchical time series forecasting: Investigating the impact of promotions57
Fundamental determinants of exchange rate expectations55
Forecasting using variational Bayesian inference in large vector autoregressions with hierarchical shrinkage55
Tree-based heterogeneous cascade ensemble model for credit scoring53
Forecasting with gradient boosted trees: augmentation, tuning, and cross-validation strategies52
Weekly economic activity: Measurement and informational content49
Too similar to combine? On negative weights in forecast combination49
Forecasting football results and exploiting betting markets: The case of “both teams to score”46
Editorial Board46
Real estate illiquidity and returns: A time-varying regional perspective46
How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts43
The M5 competition: Conclusions43
Forecasting and policy when “we simply do not know”42
Forecasting the equity premium with frequency-decomposed technical indicators41
A robust support vector regression model for electric load forecasting41
Hierarchical forecasting with a top-down alignment of independent-level forecasts40
Cognitive reflection, arithmetic ability and financial literacy independently predict both inflation expectations and forecast accuracy40
Forecasting: theory and practice39
Improving forecast stability using deep learning39
An assessment of the marginal predictive content of economic uncertainty indexes and business conditions predictors38
Variability of the Lee–Carter model parameters35
Model combinations through revised base rates35
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
Forecasting South Korea’s presidential election via multiparty dynamic Bayesian modeling34
Could the Bank of England have avoided mis-forecasting UK inflation during 2021–24?33
Exploring the representativeness of the M5 competition data32
Optimal hierarchical EWMA forecasting31
Nowcasting GDP with a pool of factor models and a fast estimation algorithm31
Forecasting presidential elections: Accuracy of ANES voter intentions31
Post-script—Retail forecasting: Research and practice31
Sequential optimization three-way decision model with information gain for credit default risk evaluation31
Combining forecasts under structural breaks using Graphical LASSO31
Evaluating probabilistic classifiers: The triptych30
Forecasting Australian fertility by age, region, and birthplace29
Rejoinder: How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification29
A disaster response model driven by spatial–temporal forecasts28
When to be discrete: The importance of time formulation in the modeling of extreme events in finance27
Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?27
Deep Probabilistic Koopman: Long-term time-series forecasting under periodic uncertainties27
The structural Theta method and its predictive performance in the M4-Competition27
Whispers in the oil market: Exploring sentiment and uncertainty insights27
Modeling and forecasting intraday spot volatility26
Forecasting GDP growth rates in the United States and Brazil using Google Trends26
Forecasting with trees26
Enhancing capacity planning through forecasting: An integrated tool for maintenance of complex product systems26
Forecasting crude oil futures market returns: A principal component analysis combination approach25
Judgment in macroeconomic output growth predictions: Efficiency, accuracy and persistence24
Forecasting corporate default risk in China24
Portfolio return prediction and risk price heterogeneity24
Network log-ARCH models for forecasting stock market volatility24
Mining semantic features in current reports for financial distress prediction: Empirical evidence from unlisted public firms in China24
Retail forecasting: Research and practice24
Editorial Board23
A loss discounting framework for model averaging and selection in time series models23
Targeting predictors in random forest regression22
Reactions to the Bernanke Review from Bank of England watchers22
Hawkes process modeling of COVID-19 with mobility leading indicators and spatial covariates22
Nowcasting U.S. state-level CO2 emissions and energy consumption22
M6 investment challenge: The role of luck and strategic considerations21
Forecasting electoral violence21
A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems19
A Bayesian Dirichlet auto-regressive moving average model for forecasting lead times19
Anticipating humanitarian emergencies with a high risk of conflict-induced displacement19
Combining forecasts for universally optimal performance19
Counterfactual reconciliation: Incorporating aggregation constraints for more accurate causal effect estimates18
Discussion of “Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality”18
Forecasting stock market return with anomalies: Evidence from China18
Technical analysis, spread trading, and data snooping control18
Internal consistency of household inflation expectations: Point forecasts vs. density forecasts18
Hierarchical mortality forecasting with EVT tails: An application to solvency capital requirement18
False dichotomy alert: Improving subjective-probability estimates vs. raising awareness of systemic risk17
All forecasters are not the same: Systematic patterns in predictive performance17
M5 accuracy competition: Results, findings, and conclusions17
Partisan bias, attribute substitution, and the benefits of an indirect format for eliciting forecasts and judgments of trend17
The power of narrative sentiment in economic forecasts17
On forecast stability16
Quasi-average predictions and regression to the trend: An application to the M6 financial forecasting competition16
Predicting monthly biofuel production using a hybrid ensemble forecasting methodology16
Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model16
Physics-informed Gaussian process regression for states estimation and forecasting in power grids16
Mixed-frequency machine learning: Nowcasting and backcasting weekly initial claims with daily internet search volume data16
Forecast value added in demand planning16
Demand forecasting under lost sales stock policies16
Machine learning algorithms for forecasting and backcasting blood demand data with missing values and outliers: A study of Tema General Hospital of Ghana16
Volatility analysis for the GARCH–Itô–Jumps model based on high-frequency and low-frequency financial data16
Jump persistence and temporal aggregation of tail risk15
Static and dynamic models for multivariate distribution forecasts: Proper scoring rule tests of factor-quantile versus multivariate GARCH models15
Beyond the numbers: The role of people and processes in central bank forecasting15
Predicting value at risk for cryptocurrencies with generalized random forests15
Robust returns ranking prediction and portfolio optimization for M615
Guest Editorial: Food and Agriculture Forecasting15
Editorial Board15
Accelerating peak dating in a dynamic factor Markov-switching model15
Properties of the reconciled distributions for Gaussian and count forecasts14
Guest editorial: Economic forecasting in times of COVID-1914
A functional mixture prediction model for dynamically forecasting cumulative intraday returns of crude oil futures14
Factor-augmented forecasting in big data14
Lee–Carter models: The wider context13
Dynamic linear models with adaptive discounting13
Embrace the differences: Revisiting the PollyVote method of combining forecasts for U.S. presidential elections (2004 to 2020)13
The uncertainty track: Machine learning, statistical modeling, synthesis13
Editorial Board13
Hierarchical transfer learning with applications to electricity load forecasting12
Trust the experts? The performance of inflation expectations, 1960–202312
HARd to beat: The overlooked impact of rolling windows in the era of machine learning12
Nowcasting with panels and alternative data: The OECD weekly tracker12
Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks12
Real-time hurricane damage nowcasts12
Cross-temporal forecast reconciliation at digital platforms with machine learning12
Relative performance of judgmental methods for forecasting the success of megaprojects12
Leveraging image-based generative adversarial networks for time series generation12
Distributional regression and its evaluation with the CRPS: Bounds and convergence of the minimax risk12
The probability conflation: A reply to Tetlock et al.11
Editorial Board11
A machine learning-based framework for forecasting sales of new products with short life cycles using deep neural networks11
Editorial Board11
Robust recalibration of aggregate probability forecasts using meta-beliefs11
Deep switching state space model for nonlinear time series forecasting with regime switching11
The Lee–Carter method and probabilistic population forecasts11
Improving geopolitical forecasts with 100 brains and one computer11
Efficiency of poll-based multi-period forecasting systems for German state elections10
Harry Markowitz: An appreciation10
Comparing probabilistic forecasts of the daily minimum and maximum temperature10
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to very long-term10
A mixture model for credit card exposure at default using the GAMLSS framework10
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 scoring9
Calibration of deterministic NWP forecasts and its impact on verification9
Bayesian herd detection for dynamic data9
Forecasting interest rates with shifting endpoints: The role of the functional demographic age distribution9
Early Warning Systems for identifying financial instability9
Improving forecasts for heterogeneous time series by “averaging”, with application to food demand forecasts9
Forecasting for monetary policy9
Crude oil price forecasting incorporating news text8
Hierarchical forecasting at scale8
The RWDAR model: A novel state-space approach to forecasting8
Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence8
Forecasting adversarial actions using judgment decomposition-recomposition8
Empirical probabilistic forecasting: An approach solely based on deterministic explanatory variables for the selection of past forecast errors8
Stochastic modelling of football matches using dynamic regressors8
Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review8
A projected nonlinear state-space model for forecasting time series signals8
Short-term Covid-19 forecast for latecomers8
Aggregating qualitative district-level campaign assessments to forecast election results: Evidence from Japan8
Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting8
Neural basis expansion analysis with exogenous variables: Forecasting electricity prices with NBEATSx8
Forecasting, causality and feedback8
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations8
Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets8
Ups and (draw) downs8
Adaptive forecasting in dynamic markets: An evaluation of AutoTS within the M6 competition7
Forecast combination-based forecast reconciliation: Insights and extensions7
On single point forecasts for fat-tailed variables7
Avoiding overconfidence: Evidence from the M6 financial competition7
High-frequency monitoring of growth at risk7
The M5 uncertainty competition: Results, findings and conclusions7
Hierarchical forecasting for aggregated curves with an application to day-ahead electricity price auctions7
Asymmetric uncertainty: Nowcasting using skewness in real-time data7
LoMEF: A framework to produce local explanations for global model time series forecasts7
Anticipating special events in Emergency Department forecasting7
Forecasting day-ahead expected shortfall on the EUR/USD exchange rate: The (I)relevance of implied volatility7
Forecasting crude oil market volatility using variable selection and common factor7
M5 competition uncertainty: Overdispersion, distributional forecasting, GAMLSS, and beyond7
A solution for M5 Forecasting - Uncertainty: Hybrid gradient boosting and autoregressive recurrent neural network for quantile estimation7
The time-varying Multivariate Autoregressive Index model7
A comparison of machine learning methods for predicting the direction of the US stock market on the basis of volatility indices7
Forecasting mail flow: A hierarchical approach for enhanced societal wellbeing7
On memory-augmented gated recurrent unit network6
A copula-based time series model for global horizontal irradiation6
Evaluation of the best M4 competition methods for small area population forecasting6
Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: A model combination approach6
Do professional forecasters believe in the Phillips curve?6
Robust regression for electricity demand forecasting against cyberattacks6
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
Out-of-sample predictability in predictive regressions with many predictor candidates6
Humans vs. large language models: Judgmental forecasting in an era of advanced AI6
COVID-19: Forecasting confirmed cases and deaths with a simple time series model6
Data-based priors for vector error correction models6
Epidemiological versus meteorological forecasts: Best practice for linking models to policymaking6
Do we want coherent hierarchical forecasts, or minimal MAPEs or MAEs? (We won’t get both!)6
Improving variance forecasts: The role of Realized Variance features6
Nowcasting economic activity in European regions using a mixed-frequency dynamic factor model6
Editorial and introduction to the special section on the Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England’s forecasting activities6
Predicting/hypothesizing the findings of the M5 competition5
Service-level anchoring in demand forecasting: The moderating impact of retail promotions and product perishability5
Conditionally optimal weights and forward-looking approaches to combining forecasts5
Guest Editorial: Forecasting for Social Good5
Likelihood-based inference in temporal hierarchies5
Combining predictive distributions for time-to-event outcomes in meteorology5
Guiding supervisors in artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting: Understanding the impacts of salience and detail on decision-making5
On the evaluation of hierarchical forecasts5
Investigating laypeople’s short- and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 infection cycles5
Coupling LSTM neural networks and state-space models through analytically tractable inference5
Transparent modeling of influenza incidence: Big data or a single data point from psychological theory?5
ABC-based forecasting in misspecified state space models5
Special section on credit risk modelling—Guest editorial5
Evaluating quantile forecasts in the M5 uncertainty competition5
Eliciting expectation uncertainty from private households5
Daily growth at risk: Financial or real drivers? The answer is not always the same5
Locally tail-scale invariant scoring rules for evaluation of extreme value forecasts5
A multi-task encoder-dual-decoder framework for mixed frequency data prediction5
Back to the present: Learning about the euro area through a now-casting model5
Nowcasting growth using Google Trends data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series model5
Book review5
Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques5
Asymmetric models for realized covariances5
Forecasting realized volatility with spillover effects: Perspectives from graph neural networks5
Dynamic logistic regression and variable selection: Forecasting and contextualizing civil unrest5
Forecasting euro area inflation using a huge panel of survey expectations4
Quantifying subjective uncertainty in survey expectations4
DCC- and DECO-HEAVY: Multivariate GARCH models based on realized variances and correlations4
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification4
The kernel trick for nonlinear factor modeling4
Acknowledgement to reviewers4
GoodsForecast second-place solution in M5 Uncertainty track: Combining heterogeneous models for a quantile estimation task4
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
Thinking outside the container: A sparse partial least squares approach to forecasting trade flows4
How local is the local inflation factor? Evidence from emerging European countries4
Bayesian forecast combination using time-varying features4
Exploring the social influence of the Kaggle virtual community on the M5 competition4
Editorial Board4
Carpe diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?4
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