Hunan Agricultural Machinery is a national excellent agricultural machinery sci-tech periodical and a first-class sci-tech periodical in Hunan Province. Founded in 1974, the unified domestic serial number is CN43- 1093/s, the international standard serial number is ISSN 1007-8320, and the advertising license number is 430 100s059. Journals are collected by China Core Journals (Selected) Database, CNKI China Academic Journals Network, China Academic Journals (CD-ROM Edition), China Journal Full-text Database (CJFD), China Sci-tech Journals Full-text Database and China Academic Journals Comprehensive Evaluation Database. National Excellent Agricultural Machinery Sci-tech Journals and Hunan First-class Sci-tech Journals.

According to the statistical report of Publication and Dissemination of Sci-tech Journals published by Tsinghua University China Knowledge Database in September 2008, Hunan Agricultural Machinery has 2,679 institutional users in 18 countries and regions and individual readers in 18 countries and regions. According to the statistical report in September, 2009, the number of institutional users of this magazine has reached 2,780, and the number of countries and regions issuing it is 17, and the number of countries and regions issuing individual readers is 19, except Chinese mainland. The electronic version (CD-ROM version) is not only included in the national main database, but also distributed to the United States, France, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan Province Province. The Annual Report on Comprehensive Citation of China Academic Journals shows that the citation frequency and influencing factors of this journal have increased, and the annual download rate of Web has been increasing.