《社會指標研究》自1974年創辦以來，已成為衡量生活質量各方面問題的領先期刊。該雜志繼續發表關于生活質量各方面的研究結果，其中包括反映該領域發展的研究。它特別注意研究諸如生活質量的可持續性、可持續發展以及生活質量與可持續性之間的關系等問題。雜志封面上的主題包括各種各樣的分類，如社會群體、時空坐標、人口組成和生活領域。該雜志提供經驗主義、哲學和方法論研究，涵蓋整個社會范圍，致力于通過指標提供證據。它以不同的類型學來考慮各種指標，并特別注意能夠滿足了解日益復雜、相互關聯、相互作用和動態的社會現實和現象的需要的指標。此外，它還提出了旨在確定建立指標的新方法的研究。

Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.