ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a simple introduction of scientometrics, presents an overview of the bibliography of demand forecasting research, and describes the evolution of demand forecasting research. Scientometrics, a discipline aiming at measuring and analyzing science, technology and innovation, mainly about understands the scientific citations, assessing the impact of specific journals and articles and investigating the future research trends. The chapter investigates highly cited articles in demand forecasting research literature during the 1975-2015 period, with the bibliographic records from the Web of Science. It mainly focuses on the co-citation networks of cited references in the demand forecasting articles to explore the past, present and future trends for demand forecasting research. Co-citation analysis is an important part of scientometric analysis and also one of the most important functions of CiteSpace. In a scientometric analysis, the intellectual landscape of a research field is usually described through a specific network involving entities such as the cited references, the collaborating authors, co-occurring categories.
