Vadose Zone Journal
Last updated ISSN 1539-1663
Vadose Zone Journal is published by Soil Science Society of America in engineering. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,070.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Vadose Zone Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- 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
- Landslides and related hazards
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Key facts
| Publisher | Soil Science Society of America |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1539-1663 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,070 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 3,275 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15391663 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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