系統研究和行為科學通過出版關于系統理論、方法和應用的高質量原創文章，為國際系統研究者和實踐者以及所有對系統思想感興趣的人提供服務。它包含了系統運動的所有部分，包括一般系統理論、控制論、自模擬、復雜性理論、系統工程、精益系統、系統動力學、軟系統思維和關鍵系統思維。它的范圍也很全面，涵蓋了物理科學、生物學、家庭治療、商業和管理、項目管理、信息系統、社區研究、社會政策、治理、農業和環境中的系統方法。然而，編輯們特別歡迎那些在專門研究某一學科的期刊上沒有發現的具有廣泛跨學科含義的論文。

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.