The purpose of this research is discussing the studies of basketball referee at present situation. Primarily through the Taiwanese master's thesis and Taiwan periodical index system, there are 53 studies which concern the basketball referee. Hopefully the results of this research can provide more comprehensive understanding about the present situation and the develop of basketball referee. The discoveries of this research are: 1. Basketball referee related research subjects are mostly general introductions, about 25.49% of 53 studies, then is psychological factor, about 21.57%. 2. The publish of basketball referee relevant researches is primarily in the journals, around 88.5%; next is Master's thesis, about 11.5%. 3. Those research are mainly published by the basketball magazines, about 31.91%; next is Journal of Physical Education in Higher Education, Dan Jiang Ti Yu, accounts for 8.51%.