The Maturity of Scientific Research Problems: A Method to Identify the Subsequent Influence of New Published Papers

The follow-up academic high-impact method of scientific papers is a future-oriented predictive analysis method. This paper uses a new measure of scientific research problem maturity to identify the subsequent influence of new published papers. This paper chooses a special type of highly cited paper, which is the case of delayed recognition of papers. Through the scientific problem maturity method proposed in this paper, it is verified that the relationship and characteristics of scientific research and patent in the process of high citation for the delayed recognition paper reaches after several years of publication is in line with the actual situation. Experiments show that the scientific research problem maturity method, which complement other index or methods, become an effective method to predict the subsequent high impact of newly published papers.