The Journal of Surgical Research: Clinical and Laboratory Investigation publishes original articles concerned with clinical and laboratory investigations relevant to surgical practice and teaching. The journal emphasizes reports of clinical investigations or fundamental research bearing directly on surgical management that will be of general interest to a broad range of surgeons and surgical researchers. The articles presented need not have been the products of surgeons or of surgical laboratories.

《外科研究雜志：臨床和實驗室調查》發表了與外科實踐和教學有關的臨床和實驗室調查的原始文章。該雜志強調臨床調查或基礎研究的報告直接關系到外科管理，這將是廣大外科醫生和外科研究人員普遍感興趣的。提交的文章不一定是外科醫生或外科實驗室的產品。