Survey Research Methods is the official peer reviewed journal of the European Survey Research Association. The journal publishes articles in English which discuss methodological issues related to survey research; see SRM's focus and scope for more details about articles published in SRM.

Survey Research Methods is indexed by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus , and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Survey Research Methods has signed the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines of the Center for Open Science; see the Author Guidelines for SRM's adoption of these guidelines.