【Purpose/significance】This paper summarizes the status quo, existing problems, causes and countermeasures of the research on the funding effect of NSFC on outputpapers, which is helpful to provide research direction for the reasonable evaluation of the funding effect of NSFC on output papers in the future.【Method/process】By using the Literature measurement analysis method, in the CNKI database, searching through "the National Natural ScienceFund", "output papers" and "effect", the research papers about the funding effect ofNational Natural Science Fundationon research literatureare downloaded.According to the quality and quantity funding effectof NSFC onoutputpapers,the research papers are classified, the research status quo are carded, respectively, existing problems and the reasons and countermeasures are analyzed.【Result/conclusion】There areunreasonable evaluation results existing in the research on the effcet of National Natural Science Foundation financing for scientifc and technological papers.Under the premise of controlingconfusion effect of interference factorsonfundfinancing, the future research should compare singleand multiple support function of NSFC and other major scientific fund at home and abroad,further evaluate NSFC funding for output papersreasonably