Since 2010, the state key laboratory of coal resources and safe mining has established 170 monographs and more than 2000 scientific papers (over 500 included by SCI, over 1200 included by EI, over 100 included by ISTP, cited by Web of Science Core Collection for 1362 times, cited By Scopus database for 2036 times). In 2014-2016, Professor Shifeng Dai was successively selected by the world-famous publishing company Elsevier as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers in the “Earth & Planetary Science” list. Professor Jialin Xu was selected as the one of the authors of “The Most Influential 100 Chinese Academic Papers in 2015” of Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering.