《大湖研究雜志》每年出版六期，內容涉及多學科，出版的手稿涉及生物、化學、物理、地質等自然科學領域的廣泛理論和應用主題，以及世界各大湖及其流域的社會科學。大型湖泊一般被認為是那些平均表面積為>500平方公里的湖泊(見Herdendorf, C.E. 1982)。世界上的大湖。例如，《五大湖判例匯編》第8章379-412節)，盡管較小的湖泊也可以考慮，尤其是如果它們很深的話。我們還歡迎對咸水湖和河口水域的研究作出貢獻，這些研究的結果可應用于大型湖泊。這本雜志每年出版六次。

Published six times per year, the Journal of Great Lakes Research is multidisciplinary in its coverage, publishing manuscripts on a wide range of theoretical and applied topics in the natural science fields of biology, chemistry, physics, geology, as well as social sciences of the large lakes of the world and their watersheds. Large lakes generally are considered as those lakes which have a mean surface area of >500 km2 (see Herdendorf, C.E. 1982. Large lakes of the world. J. Great Lakes Res. 8:379-412, for examples), although smaller lakes may be considered, especially if they are very deep. We also welcome contributions on saline lakes and research on estuarine waters where the results have application to large lakes. The journal is published six times per year.