Abstract: This paper analyzes 231 articles about social management innovation from CSSCI journals. The content analysis method is used to assess the time of papers published, researchers, units of authors, academic titles, levels of study, tapes of discipline, cited times, reference documents and so on, of which the purpose is to ascertain the academic research status on social management innovation, and further answer the 3 default questions who conduct the research, from which dimension to do the research and what’s the quality of research. In particular, it points out that future research should focus on the application research of actual policy, normative research based on the literature review and references, as well as the empirical research established on scientific methods and facts