Hydrogeology Journal has acquired a large worldwide readership since its inception in 1992. The Journal's emphasis is to:Foster understanding of hydrogeology, a practical discipline aimed at bettering the human situation on earth,Describe worldwide progress in hydrogeology,And to provide an inexpensive and widely accessible forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, and practitioners in developing and industrialized countries alike.A mainstream paper in Hydrogeology Journal integrates subsurface hydrology and geology with the other supporting disciplines (such as geochemistry, geophysics, geomorphology, geobiology, surface-water hydrology, tectonics, mathematics, numerical modeling, economics, and sociology) to explain phenomena observed in the field. Hydrogeology Journal publishes peer-reviewed papers in both theoretical and applied aspects of hydrogeologic science, including:Theoretical and field studies ranging in scale from local areas and short time periods to regional or global problems and geologic time,Techniques and innovative instrumentation in the laboratory and field (for example, hydrologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mathematical),Water-resource and related mineral-resource evaluations,Reports of observed hydrogeologic phenomena,Overviews of hydrogeologic systems of interest in various regions,State-of-the-art-reviews,Philosophy of scientific methods in hydrogeology,Interaction between populations and hydrogeologic systems,Economics of hydrogeologic systems,Ramifications of hydrogeology on both environmental protection and optimal employment of natural resources,And the history of hydrogeology and biographies of eminent hydrogeologists.

自1992年成立以來，Hydrogeology Journal已經獲得了大量的全球讀者。該雜志的重點是：促進對水文地質學的理解，這是一門旨在改善地球上人類狀況的實用學科，描述全球水文地質學的進展，并為發展中國家和工業化國家的科學家，研究人員，工程師和從業者提供廉價且廣泛使用的論壇。“水文地質學報”的主流論文將地下水文學和地質學與其他支持學科（如地球化學，地球物理學，地貌學，地球生物學，地表水文學，構造學，數學，數值模擬，經濟學和社會學）相結合，以解釋在領域。 Hydrogeology Journal在水文地質科學的理論和應用方面發表同行評審論文，包括：理論和實地研究范圍從當地和短時期到區域或全球問題和地質時間，實驗室和現場的技術和創新儀器（例如，水文，地球化學，地球物理和數學），水資源和相關的礦產資源評估，有關觀測到的水文地質現象的報告，各地區感興趣的水文地質系統概述，國家的最先進的審閱，水文地質科學方法哲學，人口與水文地質系統之間的相互作用，水文地質系統經濟學，水文地質對環境保護和自然資源最佳就業的影響，以及著名水文地質學家的水文地質學和傳記史。