Paper-patent citation linkages as early signs for predicting delayed recognized knowledge: Macro and micro evidence

•Paper-patent citation linkages may serve as early signs for predicting delayed recognized knowledge in science.•Such papers may firstly encounter negative citations and then patent citations and finally get widely recognized.•The trans-fields technological impact is important for under-cited scientific knowledge to become highly cited.•Several trans-fields of science-technology interactions, such as “physics/mathematics - computer technology” are discovered.•Text mining both authors’ claims and citing sentences is proposed for identifying potential transformative knowledge.