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Papers

(The TQCC of Vadose Zone Journal is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Development of a vadose zone advanced monitoring system: Tools to assess groundwater vulnerability	60
Soil hydraulic property maps for the contiguous United States at 100‐m resolution and seven depths: Code design and preliminary results	41
Application of cosmic‐ray neutron probes for measuring soil moisture in rocky areas of the Taihang Mountains, North China	40
Determination of a pedotransfer function for specific air–water interfacial area in sandy soils: A pore network‐informed multigene genetic programming approach	33
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2023	29
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites	22
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2022	21
Contactless estimation of soil moisture using leaky Rayleigh waves and a fully convolutional network	18
Water vapor transport through bioenergy grass residues and its effects on soil water evaporation	18
Microbial O₂ consumption as a function of pore structure in soils of sorghum, switchgrass, and prairie vegetation systems	17
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Extending the measurement range of the simplified evaporation method using humidity sensors	16
Cover Image, Volume 22, Issue 3	16
Algebraic expressions for convective solute transport in a homogeneous soil below a surface barrier	15
Validating coupled flow theory for bare‐soil evaporation under different boundary conditions	15
Disentangling slope‐scale spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity in the black soil region of northeast China using noise‐assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition	14
Field evaluation of semi‐automated moisture estimation from geophysics using machine learning	13
Experimental quantification of interfacial convections at the water–nonaqueous‐phase liquid interface in microfluidic systems	13
An improved model and field calibration technique for measuring liquid water content in unfrozen and frozen soils with dielectric probes	13
Review of Rain or Shine: An Introduction to Soil Physical Properties and Processes. Tyson Ochsner. Published by Oklahoma State University Libraries under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 In	13
Applying minirhizotrons to observe spatiotemporal variations in rooting depth and distribution in agroecosystems to improve the performance of hydrological models	12
Interpretation of large‐scale, long‐term electrical geophysical monitoring guided by a process simulation	12
Issue Information	12
Dimensionality and scales of preferential flow in soils of Shale Hills hillslope simulated using HYDRUS	11
Cover Image, Volume 20, Issue 5	11

The osmotic potential of soil solutions in salt tolerance studies: Following M. Th. van Genuchten's innovation	11
Soil carbon determination for long‐term monitoring revisited using thermo‐gravimetric analysis	11
Validation of downscaled 1‐km SMOS and SMAP soil moisture data in 2010–2021	11
Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration—Complications of bulk density and water content variations	10
Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths	10
Neutron imaging of exchange flow between biopore and matrix for Bt versus C horizons	10
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Nitrate contamination of urban groundwater and heavy rainfall: Observations from Dakar, Senegal	9
The value of long‐term in situ soil moisture and snowpack monitoring: Laying the foundation for future studies in the Upper Missouri River Basin	9
Frequency domain‐based analytical solutions for one‐dimensional soil water flow in layered soils	9
A formulation for assessing the risk of anthropogenic drought based on drought characteristics and socioeconomic and physical factors	9
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2021	9
Tracing lateral subsurface flow in layered soils by undisturbed monolith sampling, targeted laboratory experiments, and model‐based analysis	8
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow	8
Characterizing the topographic index as a tool to represent spatial soil moisture: The effect of classification approach, digital elevation model type, and resolution	8
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development	8
Publisher's Report 2022: Vadose Zone Journal	7
Cover Image, Volume 22, Issue 2	7
Colloidal transport of heavy metals in low‐advective‐velocity environmental systems: Reactive transport model on biogeochemical and hydrodynamic impacts	7
A new exponential model for predicting soil gas diffusivity with varying degree of saturation	7
Effects of dynamic capillarity on the shear strength of sandy soils during transient two‐phase flow: Insights from non‐equilibrium triaxial simulations	7
Experiment for validation of numerical models of coupled heat and mass transfer around energy cables	7
Vadose Zone Journal Annual Report, 2023	7
Organic carbon stocks in weathered bedrock—Establishing the soil parent material as a new horizon in soil carbon research	6
Bromide reactivity in topsoil: Implications for use as a “conservative” tracer in assessing quantity and quality of water	5
Cover Image, Volume 21, Issue 6	5
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Averaging or adding domain conductivities to calculate the unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity	5
Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium	5
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Self‐potential signals of soil columns experiencing evaporation and transpiration	5
Gaia: Complex systems prediction for time to adapt to climate shocks	5
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Calibration and validation of soil water reflectometers	5
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Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones	5
Temporal covariance of spatial soil moisture variations: A mechanistic error modeling approach	5
Elucidating the role of water films on solute diffusion in unsaturated porous media by improved pore‐scale modeling	5
Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria mediate soil hydro‐physical properties: An investigation with Bacillus subtilis and its mutants	5
Linking horizontal crosshole GPR variability with root image information for maize crops	5
The time validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation: An elusive theoretical quantity?	5
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Emerging issues and research opportunities in vadose zone processes	5
Parameter estimation from spontaneous imbibition into volcanic tuff	5
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Soil moisture forecasting in wireless sensor networks via spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks	4
A parametric sensitivity analysis for prioritizing regolith knowledge needs for modeling water transfers in the West African critical zone	4
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Modeling nitrogen loss using stable isotopes in mountainous watersheds of the Bohemian Slavkov Forest (NW Czech Republic)	4

Issue Information	4
Cover Image, Volume 20, Issue 6	4
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How solid–liquid adsorption affects the liquid–vapor interface in pores	4
Large‐scale photovoltaic farms significantly change the vegetation diversity and biomass through influencing soil moisture and physiochemical properties	4
Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D	4
Seasonality and evaporation of water resources in Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory, Southwestern Idaho, USA	4
A novel design for continuous measurement of CO₂ from deep remineralization of petrogenic organic carbon	4
The PDI model system for parameterizing soil hydraulic properties	4
Heat transport from atmosphere through the subsurface to drinking‐water supply pipes	4
Relationships between carbon age and CO₂ efflux in agricultural and drainage ditch soils using the thermonuclear bomb pulse	4