[Purpose/significance] Refining the knowledge control unit from "document" to "knowledge element" is the key problem in knowledge discovery and utilization.[Method/process] On the basis of analyzing the essence of knowledge elements,this paper clarifies the semantic structure of knowledge elements and constructs a semantic description model of knowledge elements.Furthermore,the paper analyzes the semantic attributes of academic literature content structure from the perspective of content scenario.By abstracting the process of academic research,the paper proposes an academic literature content scenario mode,which describes the concept,structure,composing elements,and semantic model in detail,and provides the examples.[Result/conclusion] The content scenario of academic literature is the overall abstraction of the academic research process.Its essence is the semantic conceptual model of the macro-structure level and micro-content level of academic literatures,which affects the quality of knowledge element extraction,indexing and association,and regulates,controls,and restricts the logical combination of knowledge elements.Results show that this model is conducive to the semantic disclosure to the knowledge unit,and provides a new perspective for fine-grained knowledge organization and discovery.