Abstract: In order to fully understand the current research situation in field of deep coal mining, took the relevant literature of web of science database from 2003 to 2021 as a sample, this paper made an in-depth analysis on the number of papers issued, research institutions, countries, authors, literature citations, keywords and disciplines.The results showed that China's research level is at the forefront of the world in terms of the number of papers issued, research institutions and national levels; Chinese scholars pay high attention to this field in terms of the author; highly cited documents are mostly engineering and technical studies in terms of literature citation; from the perspective of keyword development and evolution, the keywords in this field mainly focus on model, rock, numerical simulation, mechanism and stress, model and numerical simulation will be the important research methods in this field in the future.From the perspective of discipline development and evolution, disciplines in this field mainly focus on engineering, geology, multidisciplinary geoscience, energy and fuel, environmental science and ecology, sustainable development will become the hot research directions in the future.