Abstract: Based on the fact that China is in the critical period of “breaking” and “establishing” in the reform of scientific research evaluation, this paper first investigates the mainstream reform policies of the international scientific research evaluation, and summarizes the characteristics from the dimensions of evaluation content, evaluation criteria and evaluation methods. Then considering the key directions of international research evaluation reform and the practical problems in the implementation of China’s research evaluation, this paper analyzes the social impact evaluation, diversity evaluation and responsible evaluation from the perspectives of evaluation dimensions, evaluation indicators and evaluation methods. It is believed that standardizing the evaluation indicators and methods of social impact evaluation, fully recognizing different types of research activities and research achievements, adopting more open and inclusive evaluation system within the framework of comparable analysis, clarifying the principles of responsible use of quantitative indicators and establishing an application system of commonly used quantitative indicators are important ways to effectively promote the implementation of scientific research evaluation in China.

Key words: Open Science; Scientific Research Evaluation; Social Impact; Responsible Evaluation; Diversity Evaluation