La obra comprende 50 volúmenes (gwon 권 卷, originalmente significaba "rollo") y se compone de:

• Registros de Silla (Nagi 나기 羅紀 o Silla bongi, 신라 본기, 新羅本紀) (12 volúmenes)
• Registros de Goguryeo (Yeogi 여기 麗紀 o Goguryeo bongi, 고구려 본기, 高句麗本紀) (10 volúmenes)
• Registros de Baekje (Jegi 제기 濟紀 o Baekje bongi, 백제 본기, 百濟本紀) (6 volúmenes)
• Tablas cronológicas (Yeonpyo, 연표, 年表) (3 volúmenes)
• Monografías (también traducido como "Tratados") (ji, 지, 志) (9 volúmenes): ceremonias y música (las dos se encuentran interconectadas), transporte y vivienda, geografía, y rango y dependencias oficiales.
• Biografías (yeoljeon, 열전, 列傳) (10 volúmenes)

La única traducción completa occidental del Samguk Sagi disponible a la fecha es la edición en ruso que se publicó en dos partes, 1959 y 2001.

Sin embargo, algunos trozos de la obra han sido publicados en estudios documentados en inglés, por ejemplo:

• Best, Jonathan. 2007. A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche [Baekje], together with an annotated translation of The Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi. [A complete translation of the Baekje bongi]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard East Asian Monographs.
• Byington, Mark E. 1992. "Samguk Sagi Volume 48 Biographies Book 8". Transactions of the Korea Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, 67:71-81.
• Gardiner, Kenneth H.J. 1982. "Legends of Koguryǒ (I): Samguk sagi, Annals of Koguryǒ." Korea Journal, 22(1): 60-69. [part one of a translation of book one of the Goguryeo bongi].
• Gardiner, Kenneth H.J. 1982. "Legends of Koguryǒ (II)." Korea Journal, 22(2): 31-48. [part two of a translation of book one of the Goguryeo bongi].
• Jamieson, John Charles. 1969. “The Samguk sagi and the Unification Wars.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. [Translation of books 6 and 7 of the Silla bongi and eleven of the biographies, mostly of men of Silla].
• Shultz, Edward J. and Hugh H.W. Kang (with Daniel C. Kane and Kenneth J.H.[sic] Gardiner). 2011. The Koguryŏ Annals of the Samguk Sagi. [A complete translation of the Goguryeo bongi]. Seongnam-si: The Academy of Korean Studies.

• Gardiner, K.H.J. “Samguk sagi and its Sources.” Papers on Far Eastern History, 2 (September 1970): 1-41.
• Kim, Kichung. "Notes on the Samguk sagi and Samguk yusa". In Kichung Kim, An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature. London: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
• Lee, Hai-soon. "Kim Pu-sik's View of Women and Confucianism: An Analytic Study of the Lives of Women in the Samguk sagi". Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 10 (1997):45-64.
• McBride, Richard D. II. "Hidden Agendas in the Life Writings of Kim Yusin." Acta Koreana, 1 (August 1998): 101-142.
• Shim, Seungja. "Plants and Animals in the Place Names of Samguk Sagi." In Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference, 10-15 April 1985, Association for Korean Studies in Europe. Le Havre: Association for Korean Studies in Europe, 1985.
• Shultz, Edward J. "An Introduction to the Samguk sagi." Korean Studies, 28 (2004):1–13.
• Soloviov, Alexander V. "Kim Busik's Samguk Sagi: the 12th Century Man Viewpoint on Korean Culture". Major Issues in History of Korean Culture: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Korean Studies, Moscow, December 17-20, 1996. Moscow: International Center for Korean Studies, 1997:71-74.
• Yi, Chong-hang. "On the True Nature of 'Wae' in Samguk sagi." Korea Journal, 17:11 (November 1977): 51-59.

• 삼국사기 texto original del Samguk Sagi en formato HTML.
• El texto del Samguk Sagi, en formato PDF en la Universidad Nacional de Seúl.
• Proyecto de traducción del Samguk sagi. Universidad de Hawái.

• Samguk Yusa
• Goryeosa
• Tres Reinos de Corea
• Historia de Corea
• Cultura de Corea