Based on the literature retrieval and analysis, this paper makes a review of the influencing factors and the prediction methods of academic papers citation.The results show that authors, journal, paper and Altmetrics are the main influencing factors of the citation frequency of academic papers; the prediction methods are mainly based on regression analysis, classification problems, citation prediction of citation networks, and point out the main development direction of the comprehensive analysis of traditional literature measurement factors,the Altmetrics data and online academic text, fine-grained definition classification prediction method. Finally, this paper prospects the research on how to improve the citation of scientific paper and citation evaluation.