OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Current understanding of subsurface transport of micro‐ and nanoplastics in soil	38
A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory	29
Geophysics conquering new territories: The rise of “agrogeophysics”	27
Soil texture and structure heterogeneity predominantly governs bulk density gradients around roots	23
Soil evaporation and its impact on salt accumulation in different landscapes under freeze–thaw conditions in an arid seasonal frozen region	18
Dual‐permeability modeling of preferential flow and snowmelt partitioning in frozen soils	16
Influence of agricultural managed aquifer recharge on nitrate transport: The role of soil texture and flooding frequency	16
Soil water potential: A historical perspective and recent breakthroughs	14
Impact of biochar and lignite‐based amendments on microbial communities and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soil	13
Root architecture development in stony soils	13
Toward high‐resolution agronomic soil information and management zones delineated by ground‐based electromagnetic induction and aerial drone data	13
Seismic signatures reveal persistence of soil compaction	12
Developing a strategy for the national coordinated soil moisture monitoring network	12
Time‐lapse mapping of crop and tillage interactions with soil water using electromagnetic induction	11
Pore‐scale modeling of microbial activity: What we have and what we need	11
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow	10
Evaluating the joint use of GPR and ERT on mapping shallow subsurface features of karst critical zone in southwest China	10
Measuring nitrate leaching across the critical zone at the field to farm scale	10
Modeling NO₃–N leaching during establishment of turfgrasses irrigated with tailored reclaimed water	10
Prediction of soil evaporation measured with weighable lysimeters using the FAO Penman–Monteith method in combination with Richards’ equation	10
Effects of evolving salt precipitation on the evaporation and temperature of sandy soil with a fixed groundwater table	9
Evapotranspiration estimation in rain gardens using soil moisture sensors	9
Natural and forced soil aeration during agricultural managed aquifer recharge	9
Quantifying hydrologic pathway and source connectivity dynamics in tile drainage: Implications for phosphorus concentrations	9
Recharge site assessment through the integration of surface geophysics and cone penetrometer testing	9

Machine learning in vadose zone hydrology: A flashback	8
Expansion and evaluation of two coupled root–shoot models in simulating CO₂ and H₂O fluxes and growth of maize	8
Cover systems with synthetic water‐repellent soils	8
Calibration and validation of soil water reflectometers	8
Monitoring spatiotemporal soil moisture variability in the unsaturated zone of a mixed forest using electrical resistivity tomography	8
Closed‐form hydraulic conductivity equations for multimodal unsaturated soil hydraulic properties	8
Monitoring critically saturated conditions for shallow landslide occurrence using electrical resistivity tomography	8
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development	8
Mercury intrusion porosimetry and centrifuge methods for extended‐range retention curves of soil and porous rock samples	7
Optimization of soil aquifer treatment (SAT) operation using a reactive transport model	7
Soil moisture and electrical conductivity relationships under typical Loess Plateau land covers	7
Impact of phosphate adsorption on the mobility of PANI‐supported nano zero‐valent iron	7
Relationship between hydraulic properties and material features in a heterogeneous vadose zone of a vulnerable limestone aquifer	7
Slope and aspect controls on soil climate: Field documentation and implications for large‐scale simulation of critical zone processes	7
Cotransport of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and formaldehyde in saturated and unsaturated columns packed with quartz sand	7
Wavelet analysis of soil water state variables for identification of lateral subsurface flow: Lysimeter vs. field data	7
Dynamic groundwater recharge simulations based on cosmic‐ray neutron sensing in a tropical wet experimental basin	7
Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management	7
Soil water isotherm model for particle surface sorption and interlamellar sorption	6
Phosphate oxygen isotope ratios in vegetated riparian buffer strip soils	6
Cover crops and tillage effects on carbon–nitrogen pools: A lysimeter study	6
Same soil, different climate: Crop model intercomparison on translocated lysimeters	6
Parasite inversion for determining the coefficients and time‐validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation	6
Numerical investigation on light non–aqueous phase liquid flow in the vadose zone considering porosity effects on soil hydraulic properties	6
Knowledge‐guided machine learning for improving daily soil temperature prediction across the United States	6
Impact of heavy metal cations on deposition and release of clay colloids in saturated porous media	6
Towards new soil water flow equations using physics‐constrained machine learning	5
Testing the EPIC Richards submodel for simulating soil water dynamics under different bottom boundary conditions	5
Feasibility study on prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance for soil moisture measurements	5
Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones	5
On the three‐parameter infiltration equation of Parlange et al. (1982): Numerical solution, experimental design, and parameter estimation	5
Removing the effects of temperature on electrical resistivity tomography data collected in partially frozen ground: Limitations and considerations for field applications	5
A field evaluation of the SoilVUE10 soil moisture sensor	5
Preferential flow under high‐intensity short‐duration irrigation events in soil columns from a karst and nonkarst landscape	5
A soil moisture‐based framework for guiding the number and location of soil moisture sensors in agricultural fields	5
Effects of climate change on depression‐focused groundwater recharge in the Canadian Prairies	5
Combining root and soil hydraulics in macroscopic representations of root water uptake	4
Compressional wave velocity and effective stress in unsaturated soil: Potential application for monitoring moisture conditions in vadose zone sediments	4
Relationships between carbon age and CO₂ efflux in agricultural and drainage ditch soils using the thermonuclear bomb pulse	4
Gas diffusivity‐based characterization of aggregated soils linking to methane migration in shallow subsurface	4
Hydrodynamic characterization of soil compaction using integrated electrical resistivity and X‐ray computed tomography	4
Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D	4
Colloidal catchment response to snowmelt and precipitation events differs in a forested headwater catchment	4
Soil hydraulic interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements based on circular and triangular capillary models	4
Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths	4
The feasibility of shortwave infrared imaging and inverse numerical modeling for rapid estimation of soil hydraulic properties	4
Investigating the controls on greenhouse gas emission in the riparian zone of a small headwater catchment using an automated monitoring system	4