Vadose Zone Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Vadose Zone Journal is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Current understanding of subsurface transport of micro‐ and nanoplastics in soil50
A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory37
Geophysics conquering new territories: The rise of “agrogeophysics”28
Soil texture and structure heterogeneity predominantly governs bulk density gradients around roots26
Soil evaporation and its impact on salt accumulation in different landscapes under freeze–thaw conditions in an arid seasonal frozen region23
Soil water potential: A historical perspective and recent breakthroughs18
Influence of agricultural managed aquifer recharge on nitrate transport: The role of soil texture and flooding frequency17
Toward high‐resolution agronomic soil information and management zones delineated by ground‐based electromagnetic induction and aerial drone data16
Dual‐permeability modeling of preferential flow and snowmelt partitioning in frozen soils16
Impact of biochar and lignite‐based amendments on microbial communities and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soil16
Root architecture development in stony soils15
Seismic signatures reveal persistence of soil compaction15
Evaluating the joint use of GPR and ERT on mapping shallow subsurface features of karst critical zone in southwest China14
Cotransport of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and formaldehyde in saturated and unsaturated columns packed with quartz sand13
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow13
Effects of evolving salt precipitation on the evaporation and temperature of sandy soil with a fixed groundwater table12
Developing a strategy for the national coordinated soil moisture monitoring network12
Pore‐scale modeling of microbial activity: What we have and what we need12
Time‐lapse mapping of crop and tillage interactions with soil water using electromagnetic induction12
Measuring nitrate leaching across the critical zone at the field to farm scale11
Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones11
Closed‐form hydraulic conductivity equations for multimodal unsaturated soil hydraulic properties11
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development11
Recharge site assessment through the integration of surface geophysics and cone penetrometer testing11
Modeling NO3–N leaching during establishment of turfgrasses irrigated with tailored reclaimed water10
Mercury intrusion porosimetry and centrifuge methods for extended‐range retention curves of soil and porous rock samples10
Prediction of soil evaporation measured with weighable lysimeters using the FAO Penman–Monteith method in combination with Richards’ equation10
Machine learning in vadose zone hydrology: A flashback10
Natural and forced soil aeration during agricultural managed aquifer recharge10
Calibration and validation of soil water reflectometers10
Monitoring spatiotemporal soil moisture variability in the unsaturated zone of a mixed forest using electrical resistivity tomography10
Evapotranspiration estimation in rain gardens using soil moisture sensors10
Monitoring critically saturated conditions for shallow landslide occurrence using electrical resistivity tomography9
Developments and applications of the HYDRUS computer software packages since 20169
Knowledge‐guided machine learning for improving daily soil temperature prediction across the United States9
Cover systems with synthetic water‐repellent soils9
Quantifying hydrologic pathway and source connectivity dynamics in tile drainage: Implications for phosphorus concentrations9
Towards new soil water flow equations using physics‐constrained machine learning8
Expansion and evaluation of two coupled root–shoot models in simulating CO2 and H2O fluxes and growth of maize8
Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management8
Soil moisture and electrical conductivity relationships under typical Loess Plateau land covers8
Soil water isotherm model for particle surface sorption and interlamellar sorption8
Same soil, different climate: Crop model intercomparison on translocated lysimeters8
Impact of heavy metal cations on deposition and release of clay colloids in saturated porous media8
Impact of phosphate adsorption on the mobility of PANI‐supported nano zero‐valent iron7
A field evaluation of the SoilVUE10 soil moisture sensor7
Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium7
Combining root and soil hydraulics in macroscopic representations of root water uptake7
Feasibility study on prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance for soil moisture measurements7
Relationship between hydraulic properties and material features in a heterogeneous vadose zone of a vulnerable limestone aquifer7
Optimization of soil aquifer treatment (SAT) operation using a reactive transport model7
Preferential flow under high‐intensity short‐duration irrigation events in soil columns from a karst and nonkarst landscape7
Cover crops and tillage effects on carbon–nitrogen pools: A lysimeter study7
Wavelet analysis of soil water state variables for identification of lateral subsurface flow: Lysimeter vs. field data7
Dynamic groundwater recharge simulations based on cosmic‐ray neutron sensing in a tropical wet experimental basin7
Slope and aspect controls on soil climate: Field documentation and implications for large‐scale simulation of critical zone processes7
Phosphate oxygen isotope ratios in vegetated riparian buffer strip soils7
Effects of climate change on depression‐focused groundwater recharge in the Canadian Prairies7
Soil hydraulic interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements based on circular and triangular capillary models6
Testing the EPIC Richards submodel for simulating soil water dynamics under different bottom boundary conditions6
Gas diffusivity‐based characterization of aggregated soils linking to methane migration in shallow subsurface6
Parasite inversion for determining the coefficients and time‐validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation6
Removing the effects of temperature on electrical resistivity tomography data collected in partially frozen ground: Limitations and considerations for field applications6
Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria mediate soil hydro‐physical properties: An investigation with Bacillus subtilis and its mutants6
Numerical investigation on light non–aqueous phase liquid flow in the vadose zone considering porosity effects on soil hydraulic properties6
A soil moisture‐based framework for guiding the number and location of soil moisture sensors in agricultural fields6
Relationships between carbon age and CO2 efflux in agricultural and drainage ditch soils using the thermonuclear bomb pulse6
Nitrate contamination of urban groundwater and heavy rainfall: Observations from Dakar, Senegal5
Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths5
MesoSoil v2.0: An updated soil physical property database for the Oklahoma Mesonet5
Coupled inversion of hydraulic and self‐potential data from transient outflow experiments to estimate soil petrophysical properties5
Investigating the controls on greenhouse gas emission in the riparian zone of a small headwater catchment using an automated monitoring system5
Experiment for validation of numerical models of coupled heat and mass transfer around energy cables5
On the three‐parameter infiltration equation of Parlange et al. (1982): Numerical solution, experimental design, and parameter estimation5
Compressional wave velocity and effective stress in unsaturated soil: Potential application for monitoring moisture conditions in vadose zone sediments4
Colloidal catchment response to snowmelt and precipitation events differs in a forested headwater catchment4
The role of hydropedology when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals4
Rock fragments influence the water retention and hydraulic conductivity of soils4
Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration—Complications of bulk density and water content variations4
The feasibility of shortwave infrared imaging and inverse numerical modeling for rapid estimation of soil hydraulic properties4
Hydrodynamic characterization of soil compaction using integrated electrical resistivity and X‐ray computed tomography4
A parametric sensitivity analysis for prioritizing regolith knowledge needs for modeling water transfers in the West African critical zone4
Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D4
On the laboratory calibration of dielectric permittivity models for agricultural soils: Effect of systematic porosity variation3
Developing a soil column system to measure hydrogeophysical properties of unconsolidated sediment3
Biochar modifies soil physical properties mostly through changes in soil structure rather than through its internal porosity3
Water‐ and air‐filled pore networks and transport parameters under drying and wetting processes3
Stochastic analysis of plant available water estimates and soil water balance components simulated by a hydrological model3
Colloidal transport of heavy metals in low‐advective‐velocity environmental systems: Reactive transport model on biogeochemical and hydrodynamic impacts3
Upscaling soil moisture from point scale to field scale: Toward a general model3
Pedotransfer functions developed for calculating soil saturated hydraulic conductivity in check dams on the Loess Plateau in China3
Simplified characteristic time method for accurate estimation of the soil hydraulic parameters from one‐dimensional infiltration experiments3
Improved calculation of soil hydraulic conductivity with the simplified evaporation method3
Laboratory experiments and dual‐domain modeling of infiltration dynamics in partially saturated fractured porous media3
Fate and transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in repacked soil columns: Influence of soil properties and surfactant3
Relationships among water and gas transport properties in soils from natural and induced clay gradients3
Heterogeneous multiphase flow properties of volcanic rocks and implications for noble gas transport from underground nuclear explosions3
Bias of stormwater infiltration measurement methods evaluated using numerical experiments3
Fate of herbicides in cropped lysimeters: 1. Influence of different processes and model structure on vadose zone flow3
Modified expression for hydraulic conductivity according to Mualem–van Genuchten to allow proper computations at low‐pressure heads3
A methodology for simulating perched conditions in multilayer aquifer systems with 2D variably saturated flow3
Coupling non‐invasive imaging and reactive transport modeling to investigate water and oxygen dynamics in the root zone2
Examining the value of hydropedological information on hydrological modeling at different scales in the Sabie catchment, South Africa2
New insights into the correlation between soil thermal conductivity and water retention in unsaturated soils2
Modification of a 3D printer to create geologically realistic heterogeneous sand packs2
The site‐specific selection of the infiltration model based on the global dataset and random forest algorithm2
The osmotic potential of soil solutions in salt tolerance studies: Following M. Th. van Genuchten's innovation2
Mapping spatiotemporal soil moisture in highly heterogeneous agricultural landscapes using mobile dual‐spectra cosmic‐ray neutron sensing2
In situ measurement of 3D contact angle in sand based on X‐ray computed tomography2
An improved model and field calibration technique for measuring liquid water content in unfrozen and frozen soils with dielectric probes2
Root water uptake of biofuel crops revealed by coupled electrical resistivity and soil water content measurements2
Innovative method for installing soil moisture probes in a large‐scale undisturbed gravel lysimeter2
Pore‐scale simulation of mucilage drainage2
Elucidating the role of water films on solute diffusion in unsaturated porous media by improved pore‐scale modeling2
Parameter estimation from spontaneous imbibition into volcanic tuff2
Soil salinization in Portugal: An in‐depth exploration of impact, advancements, and future considerations2
Tracing lateral subsurface flow in layered soils by undisturbed monolith sampling, targeted laboratory experiments, and model‐based analysis2
Controlled drainage and subirrigation suitability in the United States: A meta‐analysis of crop yield and soil moisture effects2
Microbial and solute transport through intact vadose zone cores of heterogeneous alluvial gravel under variably saturated conditions2
Validating coupled flow theory for bare‐soil evaporation under different boundary conditions2
Impact of biochar amendments on soil water and plant uptake dynamics under different cropping systems2
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites2
Reviewing and analyzing shrinkage of peat and other organic soils in relation to selected soil properties2
Fate of herbicides in cropped lysimeters: 2. Leaching of four maize herbicides considering different processes2
Unreconciled effects of salinity on draining and wetting functions in unsaturated soils2
In‐situ tin casting combined with three‐dimensional scanner to quantify anecic earthworm burrows2
Dimensionality and scales of preferential flow in soils of Shale Hills hillslope simulated using HYDRUS2
How solid–liquid adsorption affects the liquid–vapor interface in pores2
Soil carbon determination for long‐term monitoring revisited using thermo‐gravimetric analysis2
Applicability of soil moisture sensors for monitoring water dynamics in rock: A field test in weathered limestone2
Water vapor transport through bioenergy grass residues and its effects on soil water evaporation2
Preferential flow of phosphorus and nitrogen under steady‐state saturated conditions1
Water retention curves of sandy soils obtained from direct measurements, particle size distribution, and infiltration experiments1
Estimation of soil moisture using environmental covariates and machine learning algorithms in Cathedral Peak Catchment, South Africa1
Determination of a pedotransfer function for specific air–water interfacial area in sandy soils: A pore network‐informed multigene genetic programming approach1
Exploring the artistic dimensions of soils in the vadose zone1
A new exponential model for predicting soil gas diffusivity with varying degree of saturation1
Modeling N fertilization impact on water cycle and water use efficiency of maize, finger‐millet, and lablab crops in South India1
A simple infiltrometer automated with a user‐friendly pressure datalogger1
Correspondence between theory and practice of a Beerkan infiltration experiment1
Field evaluation of semi‐automated moisture estimation from geophysics using machine learning1
The PDI model system for parameterizing soil hydraulic properties1
Noble gases in aquitard provide insight into underlying subsurface stratigraphy and free gas formation1
Linking horizontal crosshole GPR variability with root image information for maize crops1
A numerical test of soil layering effects on theoretical and practical Beerkan infiltration runs1
Preface: Special section on emerging particles and biocolloids in terrestrial and aquatic systems1
A black‐box automated approach to calibrate numerical simulations and optimize cover design: Application to a flow control layer constructed on an experimental waste rock pile1
Effect of water distribution patterns on the activation energy of unsaturated soils during phase transformation1
Filter for penetration resistance correction in cultivated and compacted Histosols1
Implementation of the Brunswick model system into the Hydrus software suite1
Measuring and modeling soil moisture and runoff at solar farms using a disconnected impervious surface approach1
Microbial mediated carbon and nitrogen cycling in the spatially heterogeneous vadose zone: A modeling study1
Heat transport from atmosphere through the subsurface to drinking‐water supply pipes1
Evaluation of soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity across the U.S. Climate Reference Network using two electromagnetic sensors1
Quantitative analysis of diurnal CO2 flux variations above an alkaline playa1
Transdisciplinary contributions and opportunities in soil physical hydrology1
Quantification of data‐related uncertainty of spatially dense soil moisture patterns on the small catchment scale estimated using unsupervised multiple regression1
Development of a vadose zone advanced monitoring system: Tools to assess groundwater vulnerability1
Soil thermal properties during freeze–thaw dynamics as function of variable organic carbon and grain size distribution1
Editorial: Open Access on the move1
Main water pathways in cultivated clayey calcisols in molassic hills in southwestern France: Toward spatialization of soil waterlogging1
Modeling sub‐resolution porosity of a heterogeneous carbonate rock sample1
Soil water content estimation by using ground penetrating radar data full waveform inversion with grey wolf optimizer algorithm1
Temporal covariance of spatial soil moisture variations: A mechanistic error modeling approach1
Mechanistically derived macroscopic root water uptake functions: The α and ω of root water uptake functions1
Validation of downscaled 1‐km SMOS and SMAP soil moisture data in 2010–20211
Trends in regolith thickness in a headwater catchment, Sierra Nevada, California1
Effects of improved water retention by increased soil organic matter on the water balance of arable soils: A numerical analysis1
Experimental quantification of interfacial convections at the water–nonaqueous‐phase liquid interface in microfluidic systems1
Importance of background threshold value development within risk‐based corrective action programs1
Characterizing large‐scale preferential flow across Continental United States1
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