A Guide to the Core Journals of China (Edition 2020) was released, and Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) was selected as a comprehensive core journals of humanities and social sciences. It is the first time that Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) is selected into A Guide to the Core Journals of China. Moreover, it is another honor obtained for Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) after being selected in Class-A core journals by the AMI comprehensive evaluation system for Chinese humanities and social sciences journals in 2018.

A Guide to the Core Journals of China is a fruit of a Chinese core journal evaluation research project, which was compiled by many journalists from Peking University Library and dozens of university libraries in Beijing and experts from related units.

In recent years, a number of articles in Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) have been reprinted in full text or extracted by authoritative magazines such as Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Science Digest, China University Academic Abstracts, and Reprinted in Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China. The comprehensive impact factor of Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) has increased from 0.299 in 2015 to 1.802 in 2020. The journal has been generally recognized by the academic and journal circles.