International Journal of Forecasting

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Forecasting publishes high quality refereed papers covering all aspects of forecasting.

Its objective (and that of the IIF) is to unify the field, and to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making forecasting useful and relevant for decision and policy makers.

The journal places strong emphasis on empirical studies, evaluation activities, implementation research and ways of improving the practice of forecasting.

It is open to many points of view and encourages debate to find solutions for problems facing the field.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	7.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.428

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	126

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Better to give than to receive: Predictive directional measurement of volatility spillovers

  Citation: 4392

  Authors: Francis X., Kamil

• Another look at measures of forecast accuracy

  Citation: 3723

  Authors: Rob J., Anne B.

• Forecasting with artificial neural networks:

  Citation: 3072

  Authors: Guoqiang, B., Michael

• Combining forecasts: A review and annotated bibliography

  Citation: 1640

  Authors: Robert T.

• DeepAR: Probabilistic forecasting with autoregressive recurrent networks

  Citation: 1604

  Authors: David, Valentin, Jan, Tim

• The Delphi technique as a forecasting tool: issues and analysis

  Citation: 1593

  Authors: Gene, George

• Testing the equality of prediction mean squared errors

  Citation: 1408

  Authors: David, Stephen, Paul

• Temporal Fusion Transformers for interpretable multi-horizon time series forecasting

  Citation: 1355

  Authors: Bryan, Sercan Ö., Nicolas, Tomas

• Electricity price forecasting: A review of the state-of-the-art with a look into the future

  Citation: 1216

  Authors: Rafał

• The M3-Competition: results, conclusions and implications

  Citation: 1181

  Authors: Spyros, Michèle

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