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title: "Survey of Professional Forecasters: papers using it"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 66 archived papers mentioned Survey of Professional Forecasters in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (4)."
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 66 archived papers mentioned Survey of Professional Forecasters in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (4). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Survey of Professional Forecasters

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

US national accounts, prices, labour statistics and expectation surveys.

- data category: US macroeconomic data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: Survey of Professional Forecasters

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All US macroeconomic data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/us-macroeconomic-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 66 archived papers mentioned Survey of Professional Forecasters in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (4).
- Survey of Professional Forecasters was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Finance (1).
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Survey of Professional Forecasters was mentioned in 113 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (85), finance (23) and operations research (3).
- 20 of them were published in 2025, against 8 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre for Economic Policy Research (3), ICMA Centre (3) and Monash University (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Forecasting (9), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (7) and Journal of Monetary Economics (7).
- The most-cited of them is “The predictive power of Google searches in forecasting US unemployment” (International Journal of Forecasting, 2017), with 241 citations.
- Papers use Survey of Professional Forecasters most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (13), S&P 500 (13) and University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers (12); it has 18 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 25 | 22 | 19 | 66 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 8 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 20 | 16 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-dynamics-and-control.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Journal of Monetary Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-monetary-economics.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 3 |
| 2 | ICMA Centre | 3 |
| 3 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Purdue University West Lafayette](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/purdue-university-west-lafayette.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 3 |
| 6 | Tinbergen Institute | 3 |
| 7 | [University of Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-amsterdam.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [University of Reading](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-reading.md) | 3 |
| 9 | Bank of Spain | 2 |
| 10 | Banque de France | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 2 | United States | 17 |
| 3 | Germany | 9 |
| 4 | Australia | 6 |
| 5 | France | 6 |
| 6 | Italy | 5 |
| 7 | Canada | 4 |
| 8 | China | 4 |
| 9 | Spain | 4 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Survey of Professional Forecasters | 17 |
| 2 | inflation expectations | 10 |
| 3 | out-of-sample forecasting | 9 |
| 4 | forecast accuracy | 8 |
| 5 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 8 |
| 6 | professional forecasters | 8 |
| 7 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 6 |
| 8 | European Central Bank | 5 |
| 9 | forecast revisions | 5 |
| 10 | inflation forecasting | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 241 | 2.1 | [The predictive power of Google searches in forecasting US unemployment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2017.03.004) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2017-06-15 | Francesco D’Amuri, Juri Marcucci |
| 2 | 93 | 1.0 | [Alternative tests for correct specification of conditional predictive densities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.07.008) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-11-19 | Barbara Rossi, Tatevik Sekhposyan |
| 3 | 77 | 1.2 | [Uncertainty and exchange rate volatility: Evidence from Mexico](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2021.04.029) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2021-05-13 | Georgia Bush, Gabriela López Noria |
| 4 | 69 | 1.2 | [The COVID-19 shock and challenges for inflation modelling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.01.002) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-17 | Elena Bobeica, Benny Hartwig |
| 5 | 59 | 0.5 | [Forecasting Inflation with Online Prices](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.04.018) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2017-01-01 | Diego Aparicio, Manuel I. Bertolotto |

## Used together with

Papers use Survey of Professional Forecasters most often with Economic Policy Uncertainty index (13), S&P 500 (13) and University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers (12); it has 18 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use Survey of Professional Forecasters together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Economic Policy Uncertainty index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/economic-policy-uncertainty-index.md) | Dataset | 13 | 2.3 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 13 | 2.4 |
| [University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/university-of-michigan-surveys-of-consumers.md) | Dataset | 12 | 26.2 |
| [FRED](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/fred.md) | Dataset | 10 | 18.9 |
| [VIX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/vix.md) | Dataset | 8 | 3.5 |
| [Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/bureau-of-economic-analysis.md) | Dataset | 7 | 14.7 |
| [WTI crude oil](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wti-crude-oil.md) | Dataset | 7 | 4.6 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 6 | 6.0 |
| [Marketization index (Fan Gang)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/marketization-index-fan-gang.md) | Dataset | 5 | 3.2 |
| [Euro Stoxx / DAX](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/euro-stoxx-dax.md) | Dataset | 4 | 4.0 |
| [Eurostat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/eurostat.md) | Dataset | 4 | 1.2 |
| [Geopolitical Risk index](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/geopolitical-risk-index.md) | Dataset | 4 | 7.1 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning Survey of Professional Forecasters in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | [Government-sourced categorical economic policy uncertainty](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105966) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Khanh Cong Gia Hoang, Linh Pham, Thanh Ngo et al. |  |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Survey of Professional Forecasters. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/survey-of-professional-forecasters

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-survey-of-professional-forecasters,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Survey of Professional Forecasters},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/survey-of-professional-forecasters}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).