The invention discloses an authoritative author and high-quality paper recommending system and recommending method. According to each preset theme, the recommending system calculates an author authoritative value and a paper quality paper through a plurality of factors including an author level, a citation rate, publish date and a publish periodical or a meeting level of a paper, and hereby recommends an authoritative author and a high-quality paper with the specified theme, so as to avoid authors with low authoritative values or papers with low quality values in an author or paper recommending list, and to reduce system calculation burden and improve system response time. The system and the method, on the basis of properties of academic papers, introduce relates algorithms after taking various factors affecting the author authoritative value and the paper high-quality value into comprehensive consideration, so as to improve accuracy of recommended results, which not only recommends high-quality papers to users but also remarkably shortens calculation time, and the system and the method are good in a real-time updating effect; furthermore, the system can enhance diversity of recommended results in the paper recommending list, and overcome a shortcoming of an existing system which is narrow in user view.