Abstract: Through the research on the related papers published in the period from 2006 to 2016, the citespace Ⅲ visualization software is used to study the domestic social management from several aspects of the literature, the author of the article, the co-occurrence, and the burst terms of the keywords in four journals, namely the Chinese Journal of Social Sciences, Sociology, Journal of Public Administration, and China Administration. The study finds that the impacts of community development on the social management, social management innovation research, and social co-governance are the three themes and the main research contents that the domestic social management research focuses on.