Journal Title：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 是一本獨特的刊物，專門刊登跨學科研究和評估包氣帶，包氣帶是關鍵帶的一部分，包括地球關鍵的生物表面直至地下水。它是一本同行評議的國際期刊，發(fā)表評論、原創(chuàng)研究和跨學科的專題。Vadose Zone Journal 報道了學科和多學科調查的基礎和應用研究，包括評估和政策分析，這些研究針對的是土壤表面和地下水位之間的大部分不飽和區(qū)域。其目標是傳播信息，以促進基于科學的決策和對包氣帶的可持續(xù)管理。適合 VZJ 的主題領域包括可變飽和流體流動、顆粒和裂隙介質中的熱量和溶質輸送、地下水位或附近的毛細管邊緣的流動過程、地下水位管理、區(qū)域和全球氣候變化對包氣帶的影響、碳封存、廢物處理設施的設計和性能、包氣帶受污染場地的長期管理、生物地球化學轉化過程、淺層和深層地層中的微生物過程、生物修復以及放射性核素、無機和有機化學物質、膠體、病毒和微生物的命運和運輸。VZJ 中的文章還討論了尚未解決的問題，例如如何量化地下過程和特性的異質性，以及如何在從分子到全球的一系列空間尺度上耦合物理、化學和生物過程。

Vadose Zone Journal創(chuàng)刊于2002年，由Soil Science Society of America出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋環(huán)境科學 - 環(huán)境科學全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業(yè)認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 約2.0個月 ，影響因子指數(shù)2.5，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。