Vadose Zone Journal

Vadose Zone Journal?is a unique publication outlet for interdisciplinary research and assessment of the vadose zone, the portion of the Critical Zone that comprises the Earth’s critical living surface down to groundwater. It is a peer-reviewed, international journal publishing reviews, original research, and special sections across a wide range of disciplines.?Vadose Zone Journal reports fundamental and applied research from disciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations, including assessment and policy analyses, of the mostly unsaturated zone between the soil surface and the groundwater table. The goal is to disseminate information to facilitate science-based decision-making and sustainable management of the vadose zone. Examples of topic areas suitable for VZJ are variably saturated fluid flow, heat and solute transport in granular and fractured media, flow processes in the capillary fringe at or near the water table, water table management, regional and global climate change impacts on the vadose zone, carbon sequestration, design and performance of waste disposal facilities, long-term stewardship of contaminated sites in the vadose zone, biogeochemical transformation processes, microbial processes in shallow and deep formations, bioremediation, and the fate and transport of radionuclides, inorganic and organic chemicals, colloids, viruses, and microorganisms.?Articles in VZJ also address yet-to-be-resolved issues, such as how to quantify heterogeneity of subsurface processes and properties, and how to couple physical, chemical, and biological processes across a range of spatial scales from the molecular to the global.

《Vadose Zone Journal》是一本由Soil Science Society of America出版商出版的專業地球科學期刊，該刊創刊于2002年，刊期Monthly，該刊已被國際權威數據庫SCIE收錄。在中科院最新升級版分區表中，該刊分區信息為大類學科：地球科學3區，小類學科：環境科學 3區；土壤科學 3區；水資源 3區；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分區等級為Q2。該刊發文范圍涵蓋ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES等領域，旨在及時、準確、全面地報道國內外ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES工作者在該領域取得的最新研究成果、工作進展及學術動態、技術革新等，促進學術交流，鼓勵學術創新。2023年影響因子為2.5，平均審稿速度 約2.0個月 。