"a potential next step" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to a possible action or decision that may be taken in a particular situation. Example: After completing my undergraduate studies, pursuing a master's degree is a potential next step for me.
"I see this potential bombing campaign as a potential next step to a full-fledged war," he says.
Still on the table is a potential next step from EPA.
"I see this potential bombing campaign as a potential next step towards full-fledged war.
A potential next step for China could be to address specifically micronutrient undernutrition.
Integrating STD NMR data directly into docking algorithms is a potential next step.
Thus, a potential next step is to assess whether an HP breakfast, alone or in combination with an HP lunch, leads to synergistic and more robust effects.
A potential next-step for China could be to address specifically the problem of micronutrient deficiency undernutrition.
This is another potential next step in improving the RoRo connectivity indicator presented in this paper.
Increasing discard rates and the potential for a significant increase of the spawning stock and the yield of the fishery are important reasons to further improve the selectivity of the fishery and to asses the potential next step in this process.
One potential next step would be to allow researchers who were not authors on the original research paper to publish new results as a Research Advance linked to the original paper.
Weinreich et al. [1] considered two selection models, with potential next steps in a pathway having either equal probabilities of occurrence ("truncating selection model") or with more resistant haplotypes having greater probabilities, with different probabilities given by Extreme Value Theory ("EVT model").
