[Purpose/significance] This paper aims to explore the scientificity and feasibility of predicting and evaluating the quality or influence of scientific papers based on citation influence,which can provide a new perspective for academic paper evaluation. [Method/process] Based on the idea of h index,combined with the citation frequencies and distribution characteristics of citation journals’ IF,the paper proposes the citation influence index. According to the empirical analysis of the relationship between the quality and influence of papers,the paper explores the relationship between the citation influence and paper quality,as well as the relationship between citation influence and paper influence. [Result/conclusion]There is no significant positive correlation between the quality and influence of paper,neither between the citation influence and paper quality. Although there is no significant linear correlation between the citation influence and paper influence,there is an overall difference in the citation influence among different influencing papers. Therefore,the citation influence can be used as the auxiliary index to judge the quality or influence of papers,but it is not appropriate as the main evaluation index.