Abstract: In the trend of employing science, technology and innovation to drive social and economic developments, convergence research has been promoted as the new paradigm addressing grand societal and economic challenges in recent years. Based on literature review and pilot evaluation in Chinese Academy of Sciences, major characteristics of this new paradigm were analyzed in this article, which were foundation for the logic model to evaluation convergence research. Then the evaluation framework of convergence research was formed, which provided the theoretical and practical basis for future studies of convergence research. This evaluation framework was composed by four key modules as below: evaluating the effect of solving societal and economic challenges; evaluating the convergence effect of multiple disciplines; evaluating the convergence effect of diverse innovation activities; evaluating the convergence effect of different stakeholders. Moreover, some detail methods and techniques were included for each of the above four modules.