Recently, the editorial board of the "Journal of Mining Science and Technology" received the second Annual Report on Impact Factors of Chinese Academic Journals, jointly released by CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) and the Chinese Scientific Literature Evaluation and Measurement Research Center.

At the end of 2019, the "Journal of Mining Science and Technology" had an Academic Journal Clout Index (CI) of 264.9, ranking 14^thamong 75 Chinese and English scientific journals in the field of "Mining Engineering Technology" (an increase of 8 places compared to the previous year). Its Composite Impact Factor was 1.427, ranking 10^th(also up 8 places). Additionally, on October 22, 2020, the China Coal Society announced that the "Journal of Mining Science and Technology" was successfully included in the T2 category of "High-Quality Scientific Journals in the Coal Field".