Abstract: Private think tanks play an important role in promoting scientific decision-making, but the professionality of their research output has always been controversial. Unveiling the current situation of Chinese private think tanks’ research output and understanding its characteristics and significance is imperative to the improvement of the decision-making services of these institutions. This article uses a Python crawler to obtain information on the publications of 58 Private think tanks from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure platform and performs a quantitative analysis on the 14,870 documents crawled. It then selects 10 private think tanks and 10 university-affiliated think tanks with similar comprehensive influence and conducts a comparative study on the 6951 and 7381 articles crawled, to better understand the status of published articles in private think tanks with university think tanks as a reference system. The study finds that published articles are a foundation for their long-term development and confirms that private think tanks maintain an appropriate balance among academic, social and policy influence. The research output of private think tanks is extensive and diverse; its research mode conforms to the characteristics of Mode 2 Knowledge Production, which is more heterogeneous and diversified. The professionality of their research output is not entirely determined by academic influence. Much of the research output outside the published articles of private think tanks need a more suitable third-party evaluation system for appraisement.

摘要： 民间智库在推动科学决策方面发挥重要作用，但其研究产出的专业性一直存在争议；有必要对其研究产出的现状、特征、意义进行分析，以提升民间智库的决策服务水平。利用Python爬虫技术，从中国知网平台爬取58家民间智库的公开发表文章信息，对所得14870篇文献进行计量分析；选择综合影响力相当的民间智库和高校智库各10家，获取文章信息6951篇、7381篇，以高校智库为参照系更好地理解民间智库发表文章状况。研究发现，公开发表文章是民间智库长远发展的基础，保障其在学术、社会、政策影响力之间保持合适的张力。民间智库的研究产出产量大而且丰富；其研究模式偏向知识生产模式2，研究产出的专业性不完全取决于学术影响力；公开发表文章之外的大量研究产出，需要有更适合的第三方评价体系进行评价。