---
title: "Time series forecasting research: papers and trends"
description: "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)."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 24 | 28 | 30 | 44 | 63 | 94 | 103 | 101 | 140 | 122 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 10 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 120 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 65 |
| 3 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 49 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 28 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 26 |
| 8 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/lstm.md) | 38 |
| 2 | [transformer models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transformer-models.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 34 |
| 4 | long-term forecasting | 30 |
| 5 | long short-term memory | 28 |
| 6 | stock price prediction | 28 |
| 7 | ARIMA | 25 |
| 8 | [recurrent neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/recurrent-neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.07.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2020.06.008) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2020-08-10 | Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara |
| 3 | 992 | 11.3 | [The M4 Competition: 100,000 time series and 61 forecasting methods](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2019.04.014) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2019-07-19 | Spyros Makridakis, Evangelos Spiliotis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos |
| 4 | 869 | 11.0 | [A CNN–LSTM model for gold price time-series forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04867-x) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2017.11.003) | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 2017-11-23 | Christoph Bergmeir, Rob J. Hyndman, Bonsoo Koo |

## Research ideas that follow this keyword

- [Time-series foundation models versus professional forecasters](https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/foundation-models-versus-professional-forecasters.md)

## 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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  title = {Papers on “time series forecasting”},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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