Abstract:[Purpose/significance] The basic main path is single and difficult to show the discontinuous development of technology,multibranch components of technology,and multiknowledge flow integration of technologies[Method/process]This paper proposes combination approaches of multisource forward local search path,multisink reverse local search path and global combination path to boost the variety of main path[Result/conclusion]Compared with the basic main path analysis method,this approach has improved the path variety,the important node inclusion,and the time distribution width of nodesThe analysis of fullerene field confirmed the feasibility of the method.