Jan Vanderborght

15.8k citations

280 papers · 10.3k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Environmental Engineering top 0.05%
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
Soil Science top 0.2%

Papers in

Environmental Engineering 160
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies 79
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing 77
Civil and Structural Engineering 138
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow 138

Co-authors: Harry Vereecken Mathieu Javaux Johan Alexander Huisman Heye Bogena R. Kasteel Valentin Couvreur Andreas Kemna Michael Herbst
Journals: Vadose Zone Journal (69 papers)Water Resources Research (27 papers)Plant and Soil (16 papers)Soil Science Society of America Journal (11 papers)Hydrology and earth system sciences (10 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Belgium United States

In The Last Decade

Jan Vanderborght

269 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Soil hydrology in the Earth system 2022 · 189 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2017 Reviews of Geophysics
2013 Journal of Hydrology
2008 Water Resources Research

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1	Decreased root hydraulic traits in German winter wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Олена Соловейчук, Jan Vanderborght, Yann Boursiac, Анастасия Игоревна СЕМИНА, Thomas Gaiser, Jose Fraire, Guillaume Lobet	2025	4
2	The time validity of Philip's two‐term infiltration equation: An elusive theoretical quantity? Vadose Zone Journal ·Jasper A. Vrugt, J. W. Hopmans, Bruslej, Mehdi Rahmati, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken	2024	3
3	Mechanistically derived macroscopic root water uptake functions: The α and ω of root water uptake functions Vadose Zone Journal ·Jan Vanderborght, Valentin Couvreur, Mathieu Javaux, Daniel Leitner, Andrea Schnepf, Harry Vereecken	2024	2
4	Multi-year belowground data of minirhizotron facilities in Selhausen Scientific Data ·Iva Espírito Santo, Felix Bauer, Normen Hermes, Jan van der Kruk, Harry Vereecken, Jan Vanderborght, Jose Fraire, Gina Lopez, Sabine J. Seidel, Frank Ewert, Andrea Schnepf, Anja Klotzsche	2023	15
5	Temporal covariance of spatial soil moisture variations: A mechanistic error modeling approach Vadose Zone Journal ·Н.К. Ратманова, Jan Diels, Pieter Janssens, Steffen Schlüter, Jan Vanderborght	2023	2
6	On Infiltration and Infiltration Characteristic Times Water Resources Research ·Mehdi Rahmati, Borja Latorre, David Moret‐Fernández, Laurent Lassabatère, Nima Talebian, Dane Miller, Renato Morbidelli, Massimo Iovino, Vincenzo Bagarello, Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri, Ying Zhao, Jan Vanderborght, Lutz Weihermüller, Rafael Jaramillo, Dani Or, Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Harry Vereecken	2022	7
7	Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems Lirias (KU Leuven) ·Magdalena Landl, Stephen J. Barlow, Daniel Leitner, Eva Kroener, Doris Vetterlein, Roland Bol, Harry Vereecken, Jan Vanderborght, Andrea Schnepf	2021	16
8	From hydraulic root architecture models to macroscopic representations of root hydraulics in soil water flow and land surface models Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Jan Vanderborght, Valentin Couvreur, Félicien Meunier, Andrea Schnepf, Harry Vereecken, Martin Bouda, Mathieu Javaux	2021	19
9	CPlantBox, a whole-plant modelling framework for the simulation of water- and carbon-related processes Lirias (KU Leuven) ·Elaine C. Dicicco, Andrea Schnepf, Jan Vanderborght, Daniel Leitner, André Lacointe, Harry Vereecken, Guillaume Lobet	2020	40
10	Responses of soil water storage and crop water use efficiency to changing climatic conditions: a lysimeter-based space-for-time approach Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Jannis Groh, Jan Vanderborght, Thomas Pütz, Hans J. Vogel, Mhone Deborah, Holger Rupp, Mehdi Rahmati, Michael Sommer, Harry Vereecken, Horst H. Gerke	2020	33
11	Quantification and Prediction of Nighttime Evapotranspiration for Two Distinct Grassland Ecosystems Water Resources Research ·Jannis Groh, Thomas Pütz, Horst H. Gerke, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken	2019	47
12	Water movement through plant roots – exact solutions of the water flow equation in roots with linear or exponential piecewise hydraulic properties Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Félicien Meunier, Valentin Couvreur, Xavier Draye, Mohsen Zarebanadkouki, Jan Vanderborght, Mathieu Javaux	2017	17
13	Water movement through plant roots: Exact solutions of the water flow equation in roots with varying hydraulic properties DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) ·Félicien Meunier, Valentin Couvreur, Xavier Draye, Jan Vanderborght, Mathieu Javaux	2016	3
14	TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change Environmental Earth Sciences ·Thomas Pütz, Ralf Kiese, Ute Wollschläger, Jannis Groh, Holger Rupp, Steffen Zacharias, Eckart Priesack, Horst H. Gerke, Rainer Gasché, Oliver Bens, Erik Borg, Bernard (16..?-16..). Auteur du texte Médon, Knut Kaiser, И.П. Денисова, J. C. Munch, Michael Sommer, Hans J. Vogel, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken	2016	79
15	Numerical calculation of soil water potential in an irrigated ‘conference’ pear orchard Agricultural Water Management ·Pieter Janssens, Jan Diels, Jan Vanderborght, Lisnadiyanti, Annemie Elsen, Guy Brusselle, Flavia Cristina da Silva Gabriel	2014	11
16	Root Water Uptake and Tracer Transport in a Lupin Root System: Integration of Magnetic Resonance Images and the Numerical Model RSWMS DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) ·Andreas Pohlmeier, Valentin Couvreur, Jan Vanderborght, Sabina Haber‐Pohlmeier, Sandra Wienke, Harry Vereecken, Mathieu Javaux	2010	2
17	Lateral water redistribution during evaporative-driven upward flow and its effect on solute transport JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) ·Michel Bechtold, Jan Vanderborght, Michael Herbst, Lutz Weihermüller, R. Kasteel, Harry Vereecken	2009	1
18	PARSWMS: a parallelized model for simulating 3-D water flow and solute transport in soils JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) ·H. Hardelauf, Mathieu Javaux, Michael Herbst, 林贤光, R. Kasteel, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, Jiřı́ Šimůnek	2007	1
19	Characterization of transport processes in a heterogeneous aquifer using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) ·K Müller, Jan Vanderborght, Andreas Englert, Andreas Kemna, Harry Vereecken	2004	1
20	Comparison of three stream tube models predicting field-scale solute transport SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Leonardo Pérez-Rosas, Leonardo Pérez-Rosas, Jan Vanderborght, Dirk Mallants, Maximova, Harry Vereecken, 建园田	1997	1

About Jan Vanderborght

Jan Vanderborght is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, Geochemistry and Petrology and Geophysics, having authored 280 papers that have together received 10.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (138 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (79 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (77 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (51 papers), Irrigation Practices and Water Management (44 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (31 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (30 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (5.3k citations), Soil Science (2.1k citations), Civil and Structural Engineering (3.8k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.6k citations) and Geophysics (1.5k citations). Jan Vanderborght has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Belgium and United States. Frequent co-authors include Harry Vereecken, Mathieu Javaux, Johan Alexander Huisman, Heye Bogena, R. Kasteel, Valentin Couvreur, Andreas Kemna, Michael Herbst, J. W. Hopmans and Jan Feyen. Their work appears in journals such as Vadose Zone Journal, Water Resources Research, Plant and Soil, Soil Science Society of America Journal and Hydrology and earth system sciences.

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