Polar Record publishes articles in a wide variety of areas of polar research in both the Arctic and the Antarctic and keeping its readers up to date with an extensive range of topics and concerns. The journal includes original primary research papers in the physical sciences, life sciences, polar technology, humanities, and social sciences, as well as papers concerning current political, economic, legal, and environmental issues. Notes, review papers, book reviews, letters to the editor, guest editorials, obituaries, and ‘In Brief’ items of general interest are also published.

極地記錄出版的文章在北極和南極極地研究的廣泛領域，并保持其讀者最新的廣泛的主題和關注范圍。該雜志包括物理科學、生命科學、極地技術、人文科學和社會科學的原始原始研究論文，以及關于當前政治、經濟、法律和環境問題的論文。筆記、評論文章、書評、給編輯的信、客座社論、訃告和一般感興趣的“簡要”項目也會出版。