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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Cover Image, Volume 20, Issue 4	37
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites	33
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2023	32
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2022	31
Soil hydraulic property maps for the contiguous United States at 100‐m resolution and seven depths: Code design and preliminary results	24
Microbial O₂ consumption as a function of pore structure in soils of sorghum, switchgrass, and prairie vegetation systems	24
Development of a vadose zone advanced monitoring system: Tools to assess groundwater vulnerability	20
Application of cosmic‐ray neutron probes for measuring soil moisture in rocky areas of the Taihang Mountains, North China	19
Determination of a pedotransfer function for specific air–water interfacial area in sandy soils: A pore network‐informed multigene genetic programming approach	19
Water vapor transport through bioenergy grass residues and its effects on soil water evaporation	18
Extending the measurement range of the simplified evaporation method using humidity sensors	17
Interpretation of large‐scale, long‐term electrical geophysical monitoring guided by a process simulation	16
Contactless estimation of soil moisture using leaky Rayleigh waves and a fully convolutional network	16
Issue Information	15
Experimental quantification of interfacial convections at the water–nonaqueous‐phase liquid interface in microfluidic systems	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
Cover Image, Volume 22, Issue 3	14
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	14
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An improved model and field calibration technique for measuring liquid water content in unfrozen and frozen soils with dielectric probes	13
Root architecture development in stony soils	13
Field evaluation of semi‐automated moisture estimation from geophysics using machine learning	12
Validating coupled flow theory for bare‐soil evaporation under different boundary conditions	12
Algebraic expressions for convective solute transport in a homogeneous soil below a surface barrier	12

The osmotic potential of soil solutions in salt tolerance studies: Following M. Th. van Genuchten's innovation	11
Validation of downscaled 1‐km SMOS and SMAP soil moisture data in 2010–2021	11
Cover Image, Volume 20, Issue 5	11
Removing the effects of temperature on electrical resistivity tomography data collected in partially frozen ground: Limitations and considerations for field applications	10
Compressional wave velocity and effective stress in unsaturated soil: Potential application for monitoring moisture conditions in vadose zone sediments	10
Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths	10
Thanks to Reviewers, Vadose Zone Journal, 2021	9
Dimensionality and scales of preferential flow in soils of Shale Hills hillslope simulated using HYDRUS	9
Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration—Complications of bulk density and water content variations	9
Neutron imaging of exchange flow between biopore and matrix for Bt versus C horizons	9
Applying minirhizotrons to observe spatiotemporal variations in rooting depth and distribution in agroecosystems to improve the performance of hydrological models	9
Frequency domain‐based analytical solutions for one‐dimensional soil water flow in layered soils	9
Soil carbon determination for long‐term monitoring revisited using thermo‐gravimetric analysis	9
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development	8
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Nitrate contamination of urban groundwater and heavy rainfall: Observations from Dakar, Senegal	8
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow	8
Tracing lateral subsurface flow in layered soils by undisturbed monolith sampling, targeted laboratory experiments, and model‐based analysis	8
The value of long‐term in situ soil moisture and snowpack monitoring: Laying the foundation for future studies in the Upper Missouri River Basin	8
A new exponential model for predicting soil gas diffusivity with varying degree of saturation	7
Parameter estimation from spontaneous imbibition into volcanic tuff	7
Temporal covariance of spatial soil moisture variations: A mechanistic error modeling approach	7
Vadose Zone Journal Annual Report, 2023	7
A formulation for assessing the risk of anthropogenic drought based on drought characteristics and socioeconomic and physical factors	7
Cover Image, Volume 22, Issue 2	7
Publisher's Report 2022: Vadose Zone Journal	7
Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium	7
Colloidal transport of heavy metals in low‐advective‐velocity environmental systems: Reactive transport model on biogeochemical and hydrodynamic impacts	7
Experiment for validation of numerical models of coupled heat and mass transfer around energy cables	7
Effects of dynamic capillarity on the shear strength of sandy soils during transient two‐phase flow: Insights from non‐equilibrium triaxial simulations	6
Organic carbon stocks in weathered bedrock—Establishing the soil parent material as a new horizon in soil carbon research	6
Elucidating the role of water films on solute diffusion in unsaturated porous media by improved pore‐scale modeling	6
Calibration and validation of soil water reflectometers	6
Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones	6
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Seismic signatures reveal persistence of soil compaction	6
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Averaging or adding domain conductivities to calculate the unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity	6
The time validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation: An elusive theoretical quantity?	5
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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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Self‐potential signals of soil columns experiencing evaporation and transpiration	5
Cover Image, Volume 20, Issue 6	5
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Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria mediate soil hydro‐physical properties: An investigation with Bacillus subtilis and its mutants	4
A novel design for continuous measurement of CO₂ from deep remineralization of petrogenic organic carbon	4
Issue Information	4

Linking horizontal crosshole GPR variability with root image information for maize crops	4
Dynamic groundwater recharge simulations based on cosmic‐ray neutron sensing in a tropical wet experimental basin	4
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Soil moisture forecasting in wireless sensor networks via spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks	4
Geophysics conquering new territories: The rise of “agrogeophysics”	4
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