Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] Research on the academic paper innovativeness helps to accelerate the sharing of knowledge innovation, achieve innovative breakthroughs or re-innovation, promote the development of national innovation. It is also helpful to create a good scientific research atmosphere and guide scientific research to attach importance to innovation.[Design/Methodology] Based on the existing literature, this paper explains the current research situation of academic paper innovativeness from four dimensions: the differentiation of related concepts, types, identification method, as well as the application of academic paper innovativeness. Furthermore, the future research has been prospected. [Results/Conclusions] This paper summarizes the connotation of academic paper innovativeness, two types of academic paper innovativeness, sorts out 4 methods for innovativeness identification of academic paper innovativeness and the application of academic paper innovativeness research, and points out the following dynamic changes:（1）based on scientific evaluation of the new era, further deepen the theoretical research of academic paper innovativeness, and lay a solid theoretical foundation for the selection of high-quality academic papers;（2）use new information technology to comprehensively identify the academic paper innovativeness;（3）strengthen the application of academic paper innovativeness research, enhance innovation, and create a good scientific atmosphere. [Originality/Value] Multi-dimensional exposition of the academic paper innovativeness in this paper is key to fully understand the innovation of academic papers, and accurately grasp its development trends.

Key words: Academic papers, Innovation, Research review, Identification method, Knowledge sharing