Academic Journal

Vadose Zone Journal

John Wiley and Sons Inc

United StatesSoil Science (Q1)ISSN-matched source record

Submission information ↗

Q1Ranking

—Impact Factor (year unverified)

108H-index (SCImago 2025)

0.894SJR (2025)

2002-2026Coverage

About Vadose Zone Journal

Vadose Zone Journal is a scholarly journal published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.894 and H-index of 108.

Coverage: 2002-2026. Research categories: Soil Science (Q1).

Open-access policies and author information

Reported in the official DOAJ public CSV snapshot (2026-09-01), downloaded 2026-10-03. Record updated 2026-03-17. This snapshot does not establish today’s listing status or fee quotation.

Accepted manuscript languagesEnglish

Licence optionsCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

Peer-review processAnonymous peer review

APCDOAJ-reported APC: 3440 USD; 2680 GBP; 3060 EUR

Waiver policy reportedYes

Other fees reportedNo

Author retains unrestricted copyrightNo

Digital preservationCLOCKSS, Portico

Reported submission-to-publication time30 weeks on average; not a guarantee

Openly licensed content since2018 (not the journal founding year)

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Source-backed journal facts

ISSN(s)1539-1663

ISSN-L1539-1663

Source typeJournal

Publisher / hosting organisationSoil Science Society of America

Publisher country codeUS

Fully open access (OpenAlex)Yes

DOAJ flag (OpenAlex)Listed in OpenAlex metadata; confirm current status in DOAJ

Works recorded in OpenAlex3,285

Citations recorded in OpenAlex114,724

OpenAlex H-index132

Years represented in OpenAlex2002–2026 (not the founding or closing dates)

Topics in published research

Soil and Unsaturated Flow; Groundwater flow and contamination studies; Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing; Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies; Geophysical Methods and Applications; Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods.

OpenAlex classifies topics from published works. These topics are not the publisher’s official aims and scope.

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Recent Research Articles

Micrococcus endophyticus strain WH16 oxidizes elemental sulfur in sodic soil: Effect on soil properties and crop performance

Subgrid parametrizations mediate the large‐scale effects of soil macroporosity on the water cycle in the ORCHIDEE land surface model

Issue Information

Targeting severe saline‐sodic soils in western Songnen Plain of China: A new perspective on critical flocculation concentration for clay dispersion

A review of preferential flow and transport through root channels

Evaluating the effect of compaction on soil hydraulic properties

Vadose‐zone process regimes for salt‐balance management of salt‐affected soils

A fully coupled dynamic poroelastic analysis for partially saturated soils incorporating inertial effects under transient stress loading

Data quality and metadata guidelines for the soil moisture monitoring community

Nitrate occurrence, alternative management practices, and modeled transport in the vadose zone over Nebraska's High Plains Aquifer

Developing continuum‐scale models for water flow in frozen soil

Controls of bulk density and grain size on Stage 1 evaporation from packed sand columns

Temporal dynamics of soil quality under Prosopis juliflora afforestation in drylands

A review of numerical methods for flow and transport modeling in the vadose zone

Simulating long‐term soil carbon sequestration and wheat productivity under biochar amendments in saline‐irrigated sandy soils

Characterization of peat, limnic, and mineral horizons in Eastern Canada Histosols

Thanks to Reviewers

Influence of weathering on unsaturated electrical conductivity of granitic regolith