S - Vadose Zone Journal Editorial Board (S303)
2021 Annual Report
Fall 2021 marks the 20 year anniversary of Vadose Zone Journal. Since its inception, the journal has evolved and become a mainstream journal in vadose zone hydrology. Historical and future perspective of the journal were highlighted in the Editorial ``20 Years of Vadose Zone Journal'', published in the September/October issue 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20141).
Vadose Zone Journal has been under the open access model now for the 4th year. All papers published in VZJ are immediately accessible to a global readership, which helps to enhance visibility and impact beyond the vadose and critical zone research community. Now after 4 years of open access, we can make a first assessment of the impact of the open access on the journal. The total number of papers downloaded in 2021 are 156,770 vs 94,034 (at this point last year), so the open access has indeed helped to increase the access to our papers. This was also reflected in an increase of the journal's impact factor: the 2-year impact factor is 3.289 (a 31% increase from last year), and the 5-year impact factor is 3.426. Given that we were not listed in Web of Science in 2020 due to the switch to Wiley and the fact that Wiley only pushed articles to Web of Science at the end of issue closure and we only published a single issue per year, this increase in impact factor is remarkable.
The 2020 impact factor of VZJ increased to 3.289 from 2.504 in 2019. The number of total citations has steadily increased and reached a all-time high of of 5,442 in 2020.
More details are listed in the attached report.
Items Requiring Board Attention:
Members of the Committee:
Nicholas Goeser (Member, Ex Officio)
Lauren Matthews (Member, Ex Officio)
Matt Wascavage (Member, Ex Officio)
David Myrold (SSSA Editor-in-Chief)
Markus Flury (VZJ Editor)
Venkat Lakshmi (VZJ Co-Editor)
Kathleen Smits (VZJ Co-Editor)
Jan Vanderborght (VZJ Co-Editor)
Yusong Li (VZJ Science Communications Editor)
Majdi Abou Najm (VZJ Associate Editor)
Emmanuel Arthur (VZJ Associate Editor)
Joerg Bachmann (VZJ Associate Editor)
Andrew Binley (VZJ Associate Editor)
Asim Biswas (VZJ Associate Editor)
Marco Bittelli (VZJ Associate Editor)
Todd Caldwell (VZJ Associate Editor)
Andrea Carminati (VZJ Associate Editor)
Jean Caron (VZJ Associate Editor)
Helen Dahlke (VZJ Associate Editor)
Christophe Darnault (VZJ Associate Editor)
Quirijn de Jong van Lier (VZJ Associate Editor)
Gary Feng (VZJ Associate Editor)
Vilim Filipovic (VZJ Associate Editor)
Sarah Garre (VZJ Associate Editor)
Behzad Ghanbarian (VZJ Associate Editor)
Hailong He (VZJ Associate Editor)
Joshua Heitman (VZJ Associate Editor)
Qinhong Hu (VZJ Associate Editor)
Guanhua Huang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Johan Huisman (VZJ Associate Editor)
Nicholas Jarvis (VZJ Associate Editor)
Karsten Jensen (VZJ Associate Editor)
Yan Jin (VZJ Associate Editor)
Scott Jones (VZJ Associate Editor)
Thorsten Knappenberger (VZJ Associate Editor)
Eva Kroener (VZJ Associate Editor)
Naftali Lazarovitch (VZJ Associate Editor)
Xiaoyan Li (VZJ Associate Editor)
Xin Li (VZJ Associate Editor)
Xiuyu Liang (VZJ Associate Editor)
William Likos (VZJ Associate Editor)
Kathleen Lohse (VZJ Associate Editor)
Ning Lu (VZJ Associate Editor)
Umakant Mishra (VZJ Associate Editor)
Kevin Mumford (VZJ Associate Editor)
Celine Pallud (VZJ Associate Editor)
Tjalfe Poulsen (VZJ Associate Editor)
Clare Robinson (VZJ Associate Editor)
Kenton Rod (VZJ Associate Editor)
Steffen Schluter (VZJ Associate Editor)
Indra Sen (VZJ Associate Editor)
Jianying Shang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Nima Shokri (VZJ Associate Editor)
Bing Cheng Si (VZJ Associate Editor)
Christine Stumpp (VZJ Associate Editor)
Jinyun Tang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Ryan Teuling (VZJ Associate Editor)
Tetsu Tokunaga (VZJ Associate Editor)
Martine van der Ploeg (VZJ Associate Editor)
Sjoerd Van Der Zee (VZJ Associate Editor)
Anne Verhoef (VZJ Associate Editor)
Kunio Watanabe (VZJ Associate Editor)
Ute Wollschläger (VZJ Associate Editor)
Fred Zhang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Xiaodong Zhang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Yonggen Zhang (VZJ Associate Editor)
Chunmiao Zheng (VZJ Associate Editor)
Yusong Li (VZJ Consulting Editor)
Insa Neuweiler (VZJ Consulting Editor)
Manoj Shukla (VZJ Consulting Editor)
Manoj Shukla (VZJ Book Review Editor)
Kaitlin Miller (VZJ Journal Manager)
Prepared By:
Flury, Markus