The article combs and analyzes systematically for the first time the trends and features of foreign and domestic think tank research, using bibliometric methods, and based on hand-finishing 262 SSCI foreign literatures from Web of Science and 451 Chinese core journals, CSSCI literatures from China National Knowledge Internet(CNKI) system. Furthermore, this article compares the foreign and domestic think tanks researches in terms of study atmosphere and study facts to propose some constructive suggestions for the domestic think tanks research.