Papers on “time series forecasting”

Research on “time series forecasting” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “time series forecasting” appeared in 1,071 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (749), economics (126) and operations research (77).
193 of them were published in 2025, against 35 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Central South University (11), Beihang University (10) and Monash University (10).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (120), Knowledge-Based Systems (65) and Neural Computing and Applications (49).
The most-cited of them is “DeepAR: Probabilistic forecasting with autoregressive recurrent networks” (International Journal of Forecasting, 2019), with 2,729 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	24	28	30	44	63	94	103	101	140	122
Economics	1	9	21	12	14	17	9	17	16	10
Operations Research	5	8	3	7	6	8	7	8	15	10
Finance	0	1	2	6	3	1	6	4	10	10
Statistics	4	0	3	2	0	4	6	6	5	4
Information Systems	0	2	2	1	2	2	0	0	3	4
Management	0	0	1	2	3	1	2	2	3	0
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1
Higher Education and Research	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All categories	35	49	63	77	91	127	133	140	193	163

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	120
2	Knowledge-Based Systems	65
3	Neural Computing and Applications	49
4	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	30
5	Neural Networks	28
6	Applied Intelligence	28
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	26
8	Computational Economics	25
9	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	15
10	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	15

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Central South University	11
2	Beihang University	10
3	Monash University	10
4	Tsinghua University	10
5	Zhejiang University	10
6	Chinese Academy of Sciences	9
7	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	9
8	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	9
9	Shenzhen University	9
10	Shandong Institute of Business and Technology	8

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	311
2	United States	63
3	India	33
4	Australia	31
5	Spain	27
6	South Korea	27
7	United Kingdom	22
8	Turkey	22
9	Germany	20
10	Hong Kong	20

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	LSTM	38
2	transformer models	37
3	attention mechanism	34
4	long-term forecasting	30
5	long short-term memory	28
6	stock price prediction	28
7	ARIMA	25
8	recurrent neural networks	25
9	time series classification	23

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,729	32.3	DeepAR: Probabilistic forecasting with autoregressive recurrent networks	International Journal of Forecasting	2019-10-19	David Salinas, Valentín Flunkert, Jan A. Gasthaus et al.
2	1,369	18.3	Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Current status and future directions	International Journal of Forecasting	2020-08-10	Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara
3	992	11.3	The M4 Competition: 100,000 time series and 61 forecasting methods	International Journal of Forecasting	2019-07-19	Spyros Makridakis, Evangelos Spiliotis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos
4	869	11.0	A CNN–LSTM model for gold price time-series forecasting	Neural Computing and Applications	2020-04-13	Ioannis E. Livieris, Emmanuel G. Pintelas, Panagiotis Pintelas
5	774	7.2	A note on the validity of cross-validation for evaluating autoregressive time series prediction	Computational Statistics & Data Analysis	2017-11-23	Christoph Bergmeir, Rob J. Hyndman, Bonsoo Koo

Research ideas that follow this keyword#

Time-series foundation models versus professional forecasters

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “time series forecasting”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/time-series-forecasting

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