About Journal of China University of Mining and Technology

Journal of China University of Mining and Technology

Overview and identity

Journal of China University of Mining and Technology is the Chinese-language scholarly journal of the China University of Mining and Technology, based in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. Its Chinese title is Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao, and it is identified by ISSN 1000-1964. Scopus-derived ranking services record its coverage history as 1998 to 2025, its publisher as China University of Mining and Technology, and its subject categories as Civil and Structural Engineering, Geology and Mechanical Engineering — each placed in the first quartile — and Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology in the second quartile. This profile records that verified identity and takes particular care over one distinction: this Chinese-language journal, ISSN 1000-1964, is a different publication from the university's English-language edition, which carried ISSN 1006-1266 and continued as Mining Science and Technology (China) and then as the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology.

The distinction matters because the two editions share a name in English. The English edition was founded in 1990 as the Journal of China University of Mining and Technology in English, was later renamed Mining Science and Technology (China), and is now the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, published on ScienceDirect. The Chinese-language Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao profiled here has its own ISSN, its own Scopus record running from 1998 to 2025, and its own contents in Chinese. Authors, librarians and readers should therefore always cite this journal by its ISSN 1000-1964 as well as its title.

The university: a century of mining education

The China University of Mining and Technology grew out of the Jiaozuo School of Railroad and Mines, established in 1909, which later expanded and was renamed the Jiaozuo Institute of Technology. In 1950 the institute moved to Tianjin and was renamed the China Institute of Mining and Technology, becoming the first higher learning institution in the field of mining in China; during the nationwide restructuring of the early 1950s the mining engineering departments of Tsinghua University, former Beiyang University and the Tangshan Institute of Railroad were merged into it. In 1953 it moved to Beijing as the Beijing Institute of Mining and Technology, and in 1970 to Sichuan. In 1978 a new campus was established in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, the school name was restored to the China Institute of Mining and Technology, and it was rated one of China's 88 key state universities. In 1988 the institution was formally renamed the China University of Mining and Technology, and in 2003 it was separated into the China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou and the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, as two individual entities.

The Xuzhou university is a key national university under the direct administration of China's Ministry of Education, described as the oldest higher learning institution with a focus on mining engineering in the country. A journal edited by such a university is the house journal of China's mining-engineering establishment, and its contents reflect that inheritance: deep, technically specialised work on the extraction of coal and minerals and on the engineering that surrounds it.

Standing in the indexes

The journal's Scopus-derived record, as presented by SCImago-based services, is strong for a Chinese-language title. Resurchify records an h-index of 52, an SCImago Journal Rank of 0.742 and an overall rank of 7517, with coverage from 1998 to 2025 and the ISSN given as 10001964. Its best quartiles are Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering, Q1 in Geology and Q1 in Mechanical Engineering, with Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology. Quartiles and ranks of this kind are computed from Scopus citation data and change as the underlying data change, but the pattern they describe is consistent: a long-covered, well-cited journal whose strongest fields are the engineering and geological sciences of mining.

Individual articles confirm the record's currency. Scopus-indexed papers in the journal under ISSN 1000-1964 include a 2020 study of the mechanism and prevention of rockburst in steeply inclined and extremely thick coal seams, and a 2022 paper on mining safely under a coal seam while protecting an overlying roadway — evidence that the Chinese-language journal, and not only its better-known English sister, is the Scopus-covered title of record for this research.

Scope: geology and the science of coal

Geology is one of the journal's Q1 categories, and its geological contents grow directly from its mining mission. An early example from its Scopus era is a 2001 paper, in volume 30, issue 2, on pages 165 to 169, researching the relationship between the ranks of coal and the geochemical features of rare earth elements in the coals of Hami and Huaibei. The study found that in Hami, coals of the same rank have different rare-earth features, while in Huaibei the features are basically the same, showing that coal rank has no influence on them. Coal geology and geochemistry of this kind — characterising the nation's coalfields seam by seam and region by region — is foundational work for the mining industry the university serves.

Scope: geotechnical engineering and mining safety

Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, the journal's Q2 category, covers the behaviour of rock and ground as mines are opened, deepened and worked. The 2020 rockburst paper illustrates the field at its most consequential: rockburst — the violent failure of stressed rock around a mine opening — is among the most dangerous phenomena in deep coal mining, and the journal published work on the inducing mechanism of rockburst in the steeply inclined coal seams of the Wudong coal mine, and on the mechanism and prevention of rockburst in steeply inclined, extremely thick seams worked by fully mechanised top-coal caving. The 2022 paper on mining safely under a coal seam while protecting an overlying roadway belongs to the same geotechnical conversation: how to extract coal without destroying the ground, and the workings, above it.

Scope: civil, structural and mechanical engineering

Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering complete the journal's Q1 categories. In a mining university, civil and structural engineering is not an abstract field: it covers the shafts, tunnels, roadways, surface structures and underground support systems without which a mine cannot operate, while mechanical engineering covers the cutting, conveying, hoisting and ventilation machinery that does the work underground. The journal's classification across these categories, alongside geology and geotechnics, describes a single integrated subject — the engineering of mining itself — seen from its geological, mechanical and structural sides at once. That integration is what distinguishes a mining university's journal from a general engineering periodical.

The English edition and other related titles

Readers tracing this journal's literature will meet several related names, and the verified record separates them. The English-language Journal of China University of Mining and Technology, ISSN 1006-1266, published on ScienceDirect, was continued as Mining Science and Technology (China), ISSN 1674-5264, and then as the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, a bimonthly — now monthly — English journal founded in 1990, indexed in SCIE, Ei Compendex, Chemical Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Coal Abstracts and Scopus, whose first Journal Citation Reports impact factor, released in 2020, was 3.903. None of those metrics belongs to the Chinese-language journal profiled here. A further separate title, the Journal of Mining Science and Technology, ISSN 2096-2193, is edited by the China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing — the sister institution separated in 2003 — and is likewise a different journal. The title profiled here is the Xuzhou university's Chinese-language Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao, ISSN 1000-1964.

Readership and audience

The journal's core readership is the Chinese-reading mining and engineering community: researchers, engineers and postgraduate students in mining, geology, geotechnics, civil and mechanical engineering, at the China University of Mining and Technology itself, at its Beijing sister institution, and across China's coal and minerals industries and research institutes. Its Q1 standing in three categories gives its papers visibility to the international researchers who follow Scopus, even though the journal itself is published in Chinese. For that combined audience the journal performs two services at once: it is a working technical literature for an industry in which published research bears directly on safety underground, and it is the long-run scholarly record of China's oldest mining institution.

Place in Chinese scholarly publishing

Journal of China University of Mining and Technology belongs to the large, structured system of Chinese academic journals in which national key universities maintain titles for their research communities, and within that system it holds a distinctive place as the Chinese-language journal of China's oldest mining university, founded as a school in 1909 and settled in Xuzhou since 1978. Understanding the title requires the facts assembled here: published by the China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, in Chinese as Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao, identified by ISSN 1000-1964, covered by Scopus from 1998 to 2025, ranked Q1 in civil and structural engineering, geology and mechanical engineering, and kept distinct from its own English-language successor titles. On those measures it is an established part of China's mining and engineering literature, and its record continues to grow from its base in Xuzhou.