系统研究和行为科学通过出版关于系统理论、方法和应用的高质量原创文章，为国际系统研究者和实践者以及所有对系统思想感兴趣的人提供服务。它包含了系统运动的所有部分，包括一般系统理论、控制论、自模拟、复杂性理论、系统工程、精益系统、系统动力学、软系统思维和关键系统思维。它的范围也很全面，涵盖了物理科学、生物学、家庭治疗、商业和管理、项目管理、信息系统、社区研究、社会政策、治理、农业和环境中的系统方法。然而，编辑们特别欢迎那些在专门研究某一学科的期刊上没有发现的具有广泛跨学科含义的论文。
Systems Research and Behavioral Science serves the international community of systems researchers and practitioners, and all those interested in systems ideas, by publishing high-quality, original articles on systems theories, methodologies and applications. It embraces all strands of the systems movement; including general system theory, cybernetics, autopoiesis, complexity theory, systems engineering, lean systems, system dynamics, soft systems thinking and critical systems thinking. Its scope is also comprehensive, covering systems approaches in the physical sciences, biology, family therapy, business and management, project management, information systems, community studies, social policy, governance, agriculture and the environment. However, the editors particularly welcome papers with broad transdisciplinary implications not found in journals devoted to a single discipline.