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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Current understanding of subsurface transport of micro‐ and nanoplastics in soil	50
A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory	37
Geophysics conquering new territories: The rise of “agrogeophysics”	28
Soil texture and structure heterogeneity predominantly governs bulk density gradients around roots	26
Soil evaporation and its impact on salt accumulation in different landscapes under freeze–thaw conditions in an arid seasonal frozen region	23
Soil water potential: A historical perspective and recent breakthroughs	18
Influence of agricultural managed aquifer recharge on nitrate transport: The role of soil texture and flooding frequency	17
Impact of biochar and lignite‐based amendments on microbial communities and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soil	16
Toward high‐resolution agronomic soil information and management zones delineated by ground‐based electromagnetic induction and aerial drone data	16
Dual‐permeability modeling of preferential flow and snowmelt partitioning in frozen soils	16
Seismic signatures reveal persistence of soil compaction	15
Root architecture development in stony soils	15
Evaluating the joint use of GPR and ERT on mapping shallow subsurface features of karst critical zone in southwest China	14
Microplastic induces soil water repellency and limits capillary flow	13
Cotransport of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and formaldehyde in saturated and unsaturated columns packed with quartz sand	13
Time‐lapse mapping of crop and tillage interactions with soil water using electromagnetic induction	12
Effects of evolving salt precipitation on the evaporation and temperature of sandy soil with a fixed groundwater table	12
Developing a strategy for the national coordinated soil moisture monitoring network	12
Pore‐scale modeling of microbial activity: What we have and what we need	12
Determining groundwater recharge for quantifying PFAS mass discharge from unsaturated source zones	11
Closed‐form hydraulic conductivity equations for multimodal unsaturated soil hydraulic properties	11
Analyzing dual porosity in soil hydraulic properties using soil databases for pedotransfer function development	11
Recharge site assessment through the integration of surface geophysics and cone penetrometer testing	11
Measuring nitrate leaching across the critical zone at the field to farm scale	11
Machine learning in vadose zone hydrology: A flashback	10

Natural and forced soil aeration during agricultural managed aquifer recharge	10
Calibration and validation of soil water reflectometers	10
Monitoring spatiotemporal soil moisture variability in the unsaturated zone of a mixed forest using electrical resistivity tomography	10
Evapotranspiration estimation in rain gardens using soil moisture sensors	10
Modeling NO₃–N leaching during establishment of turfgrasses irrigated with tailored reclaimed water	10
Mercury intrusion porosimetry and centrifuge methods for extended‐range retention curves of soil and porous rock samples	10
Prediction of soil evaporation measured with weighable lysimeters using the FAO Penman–Monteith method in combination with Richards’ equation	10
Knowledge‐guided machine learning for improving daily soil temperature prediction across the United States	9
Cover systems with synthetic water‐repellent soils	9
Quantifying hydrologic pathway and source connectivity dynamics in tile drainage: Implications for phosphorus concentrations	9
Monitoring critically saturated conditions for shallow landslide occurrence using electrical resistivity tomography	9
Developments and applications of the HYDRUS computer software packages since 2016	9
Soil moisture and electrical conductivity relationships under typical Loess Plateau land covers	8
Soil water isotherm model for particle surface sorption and interlamellar sorption	8
Same soil, different climate: Crop model intercomparison on translocated lysimeters	8
Impact of heavy metal cations on deposition and release of clay colloids in saturated porous media	8
Towards new soil water flow equations using physics‐constrained machine learning	8
Expansion and evaluation of two coupled root–shoot models in simulating CO₂ and H₂O fluxes and growth of maize	8
Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management	8
Preferential flow under high‐intensity short‐duration irrigation events in soil columns from a karst and nonkarst landscape	7
Cover crops and tillage effects on carbon–nitrogen pools: A lysimeter study	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
Slope and aspect controls on soil climate: Field documentation and implications for large‐scale simulation of critical zone processes	7
Phosphate oxygen isotope ratios in vegetated riparian buffer strip soils	7
Effects of climate change on depression‐focused groundwater recharge in the Canadian Prairies	7
Impact of phosphate adsorption on the mobility of PANI‐supported nano zero‐valent iron	7
A field evaluation of the SoilVUE10 soil moisture sensor	7
Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium	7
Combining root and soil hydraulics in macroscopic representations of root water uptake	7
Feasibility study on prepolarized surface nuclear magnetic resonance for soil moisture measurements	7
Relationship between hydraulic properties and material features in a heterogeneous vadose zone of a vulnerable limestone aquifer	7
Optimization of soil aquifer treatment (SAT) operation using a reactive transport model	7
Parasite inversion for determining the coefficients and time‐validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation	6
Removing the effects of temperature on electrical resistivity tomography data collected in partially frozen ground: Limitations and considerations for field applications	6
Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria mediate soil hydro‐physical properties: An investigation with Bacillus subtilis and its mutants	6
Numerical investigation on light non–aqueous phase liquid flow in the vadose zone considering porosity effects on soil hydraulic properties	6
A soil moisture‐based framework for guiding the number and location of soil moisture sensors in agricultural fields	6
Relationships between carbon age and CO₂ efflux in agricultural and drainage ditch soils using the thermonuclear bomb pulse	6
Soil hydraulic interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance measurements based on circular and triangular capillary models	6
Testing the EPIC Richards submodel for simulating soil water dynamics under different bottom boundary conditions	6
Gas diffusivity‐based characterization of aggregated soils linking to methane migration in shallow subsurface	6
Coupled inversion of hydraulic and self‐potential data from transient outflow experiments to estimate soil petrophysical properties	5
Investigating the controls on greenhouse gas emission in the riparian zone of a small headwater catchment using an automated monitoring system	5
Experiment for validation of numerical models of coupled heat and mass transfer around energy cables	5
On the three‐parameter infiltration equation of Parlange et al. (1982): Numerical solution, experimental design, and parameter estimation	5
Nitrate contamination of urban groundwater and heavy rainfall: Observations from Dakar, Senegal	5
Managed aquifer recharge site assessment with electromagnetic imaging: Identification of recharge flow paths	5
MesoSoil v2.0: An updated soil physical property database for the Oklahoma Mesonet	5
Hydrodynamic characterization of soil compaction using integrated electrical resistivity and X‐ray computed tomography	4

A parametric sensitivity analysis for prioritizing regolith knowledge needs for modeling water transfers in the West African critical zone	4
Examining subsurface response to an extreme precipitation event using HYDRUS‐1D	4
Compressional wave velocity and effective stress in unsaturated soil: Potential application for monitoring moisture conditions in vadose zone sediments	4
Colloidal catchment response to snowmelt and precipitation events differs in a forested headwater catchment	4
The role of hydropedology when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	4
Rock fragments influence the water retention and hydraulic conductivity of soils	4
Methods for downhole soil water sensor calibration—Complications of bulk density and water content variations	4
The feasibility of shortwave infrared imaging and inverse numerical modeling for rapid estimation of soil hydraulic properties	4