Vadose Zone Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of Vadose Zone Journal is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal , 202374
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Soil hydraulic property maps for the contiguous United States at 100‐m resolution and seven depths: Code design and preliminary results56
Water vapor transport through bioenergy grass residues and its effects on soil water evaporation42
Development of a vadose zone advanced monitoring system: Tools to assess groundwater vulnerability42
Determination of a pedotransfer function for specific air–water interfacial area in sandy soils: A pore network‐informed multigene genetic programming approach30
Contactless estimation of soil moisture using leaky Rayleigh waves and a fully convolutional network30
The plant‐available water associated with the four critical soil suctions vary depending on the different soil textures27
Application of cosmic‐ray neutron probes for measuring soil moisture in rocky areas of the Taihang Mountains, North China22
Microbial O 2 consumption as a function of pore structure in soils of sorghum, switchgrass, and prairie vegetation systems20
Extending the measurement range of the simplified evaporation method using humidity sensors19
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites19
Disentangling slope‐scale spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity in the black soil region of northeast China using noise‐assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition18
Using Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2 to assess the role of soil water content and vegetation cover in mitigating wind erosion in cultivated organic soil16
Field evaluation of semi‐automated moisture estimation from geophysics using machine learning15
Experimental quantification of interfacial convections at the water–nonaqueous‐phase liquid interface in microfluidic systems15
Validating coupled flow theory for bare‐soil evaporation under different boundary conditions15
Algebraic expressions for convective solute transport in a homogeneous soil below a surface barrier15
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Interpretation of large‐scale, long‐term electrical geophysical monitoring guided by a process simulation13
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Dimensionality and scales of preferential flow in soils of Shale Hills hillslope simulated using HYDRUS12
Applying minirhizotrons to observe spatiotemporal variations in rooting depth and distribution in agroecosystems to improve the performance of hydrological models12
Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration—Complications of bulk density and water content variations12
An improved model and field calibration technique for measuring liquid water content in unfrozen and frozen soils with dielectric probes12
The osmotic potential of soil solutions in salt tolerance studies: Following M. Th. van Genuchten's innovation12
Neutron imaging of exchange flow between biopore and matrix for Bt versus C horizons11
Soil carbon determination for long‐term monitoring revisited using thermo‐gravimetric analysis11
Validation of downscaled 1‐km SMOS and SMAP soil moisture data in 2010–202111
Characterizing the topographic index as a tool to represent spatial soil moisture: The effect of classification approach, digital elevation model type, and resolution11
Frequency domain‐based analytical solutions for one‐dimensional soil water flow in layered soils10
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Understanding the influence of Malta litho‐structural features on the dynamics of nitrate transport in the vadose zone9
Tracing lateral subsurface flow in layered soils by undisturbed monolith sampling, targeted laboratory experiments, and model‐based analysis9
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow9
Toward soil property‐driven identification of peat, limnic, and mineral horizons in Eastern Canada Histosols9
A novel method to assess the infiltration and filtration functions of urban soils9
Nitrate contamination of urban groundwater and heavy rainfall: Observations from Dakar, Senegal9
A formulation for assessing the risk of anthropogenic drought based on drought characteristics and socioeconomic and physical factors9
The value of long‐term in situ soil moisture and snowpack monitoring: Laying the foundation for future studies in the Upper Missouri River Basin9
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development9
Temporal covariance of spatial soil moisture variations: A mechanistic error modeling approach8
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Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium8
Colloidal transport of heavy metals in low‐advective‐velocity environmental systems: Reactive transport model on biogeochemical and hydrodynamic impacts8
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Organic carbon stocks in weathered bedrock—Establishing the soil parent material as a new horizon in soil carbon research8
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Effects of dynamic capillarity on the shear strength of sandy soils during transient two‐phase flow: Insights from non‐equilibrium triaxial simulations8
Publisher's Report 2022: Vadose Zone Journal8
A new exponential model for predicting soil gas diffusivity with varying degree of saturation7
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Elucidating the role of water films on solute diffusion in unsaturated porous media by improved pore‐scale modeling7
Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones7
Self‐potential signals of soil columns experiencing evaporation and transpiration7
Emerging issues and research opportunities in vadose zone processes7
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Gaia: Complex systems prediction for time to adapt to climate shocks7
Averaging or adding domain conductivities to calculate the unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity6
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Bromide reactivity in topsoil: Implications for use as a “conservative” tracer in assessing quantity and quality of water6
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Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria mediate soil hydro‐physical properties: An investigation with Bacillus subtilis and its mutants6
The time validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation: An elusive theoretical quantity?6
Continuous data assimilation for the Richards equation of unsaturated flow: A computational study6
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Seasonality and evaporation of water resources in Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory, Southwestern Idaho, USA5
Unraveling soil moisture dynamics with dual‐scale interpretable machine learning: Cover cropping and irrigation insights in semi‐arid agriculture5
Heat transport from atmosphere through the subsurface to drinking‐water supply pipes5
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The PDI model system for parameterizing soil hydraulic properties5
Hydraulic characteristics and model evaluation for silty sand affected by salt solution concentration5
Soil moisture forecasting in wireless sensor networks via spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks5
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Temporal scale‐dependent relationships between soil moisture and temperature unveiled by Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition in an irrigated field5
Subsurface thermal loading simulations to assess the viability of waste canister disposal in the Negev Desert, Israel5
How solid–liquid adsorption affects the liquid–vapor interface in pores5
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A novel design for continuous measurement of CO 2 from deep remineralization of petrogenic organic carbon5
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Relationships between carbon age and CO 2 efflux in agricultural and drainage ditch soils using the thermonuclear bomb pulse5
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Modeling nitrogen loss using stable isotopes in mountainous watersheds of the Bohemian Slavkov Forest (NW Czech Republic)5
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Linking horizontal crosshole GPR variability with root image information for maize crops5
Effects of water table fluctuations on naphthalene degradation: Soil column experiment and modeling5
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