Abstract
Research evaluation in the Japanese science and technology field is discussed from the author's point of view on avoidance of possible confusion due to early legislation, prevention of barren formality, and improvement of efficacy. Aspects of research evaluation are categorized into basics and more specific issues : the former includes the framework and structure of the evaluation system, related issues, scientific basis of evaluation, and the management of evaluation in the scientific community ; the latter is concerned to further development of evaluation theory, finding the outcomes, improvement in survey and analysis techniques, difficulties associated with exante evaluation, and the evaluation of the evaluation policy itself. These problems are reviewed in the perspective of the present situation in Japan.
