Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Exploring the influencing factors and configuration causes of digital hoarding behavior among young scientific research groups in academic search contexts can help enrich the research on the influencing factors of digital hoarding be⁃ havior in specific scenarios and groups, and provide countermeasures and references for young scientific research groups to avoid the negative effects of excessive digital hoarding.【Method/process】Conduct semi-structured interviews with young scientific research groups, use Grounded Theory to encode the interview text into three levels, identify the influencing factors of digital hoarding behavior in academic search of young scientific research groups, and then analyze the influencing factors of digital hoarding behavior in aca⁃ demic search of young scientific research groups through questionnaire survey and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis.【Result/ conclusion】After analysis using fsqca software, four paths were identified that can trigger digital hoarding behavior. Based on the core and edge conditions of each configuration, the four paths were further divided into three types: multivariate mixed type, task oriented type, and environmental impact type.【Innovation/limitation】Due to the limited number of interviewees, it may not be possible to ex⁃ tract all the influencing factors from their interview data, and the independent impact of a single factor on their digital hoarding behav⁃ ior has not been explored.