The research takes 511 science popularization policy texts at the national level as the analysis sample where the social network analysis is adopted. By the descriptive analysis of the policy subject, it is found that individual policy subject still remains the main form of issuing policy, while joint policy-releaser takes a relatively lower proportion which has presented obvious rising trend, and science popularization policy-making tends to be featured by overlapping operations by different departments. Through network analysis of issue releaser of science popularization policy-making and correlation analysis between subject and theme, the network structure of policy subject of science popularization policy presents “small group” trend. The focus of these policy subjects show overlapping features. In a nutshell, some concrete and practical suggestions are provided in the paper.

popular science policy  /  policy subject  /  social network analysis