social think tanks play an irreplaceable role in the field of public governance because of their unique objective perspective and expertise. However，the research of social think tanks has been in a weak position. At present，the research and exploration of social think tanks are mostly mixed with the research of “think tanks”，and there are no special agencies，teams，journals or other social think tanks to evaluate，monitor and support the platform. In order to do a better job of researching the direction，method，key point and breakthrough point of social think tanks，we must have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the current research situation of social think tanks. Through the “CNKI” database search，the 224 documents as the analysis of the text，the time，author，organization，subject，reference，research，concentration，periodicals and other 7 aspects of statistical analysis. The research thinks that the society think tank research should establish special assessment and monitoring platform；echelon training mode of professional talents for the establishment of social construction；increase the West or in remote and poor areas of social transformation social think-tank；optimization results think tank and the application mechanism；strengthening the social intelligence research areas of weakness support；to carry out research on major difficult problems of think tanks etc.