According to the "2021 Annual Report for Chinese Academic Journal Impact Factors", the impact factors of Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) reached a record high in 2020, with a score of 2.344, rising by 30.08%. The combined impact factor is 3.992, increasing by 40.91% compared with that of 2019.

The impact factor of Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ranked 23/143 in subject in 2020, while the influence index ranked 17/143, remaining in Q1.

The Annual Report for Chinese Academic Journal Impact Factors is published by China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI), China Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research Center and Tsinghua University Library. It aims to produce objective, comprehensive, standard and accurate reports on the metrological and statistical indicators of Chinese journals, and provide the sources of literature statistics.