Comparison of Impact of Selected International Journals in Architecture and Urban Studies

August 14, 2021

Comparison of Impact of Selected International Journals in Architecture and Urban Studies

SCIVAL TOOL https://www.scival.com/ which is part of Elsevier products, you can compare and benchmark research performance in higher education institutions (anywhere in the world), or research publications performance (also, anywhere in the world).

There is an excellent selection of metrics, through which you can compare journals or even individual academics/researchers. Here is a selection of journals related to Architecture and Urban Studies which shows the position of Archnet-IJAR among other 20 important journals. This is about ACTUAL PERFORMANCE.

Clearly, Building and Environment, Cities, Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Urban Studies have extremely high performance in all metrics. It is also clear that Journal of Architectural Education, Architectural Theory Review, and Architectural Research Quarterly have the lowest performance. Archnet-IJAR occupies an excellent position given its rankings --

Archnet-IJAR Recent Rankings as of May 2021

- IN ARCHITECTURE Q1 - RANKING - # 22/138 (has been Q1 for four years since 2016)
- IN URBAN STUDIES Q1 - RANKING - # 54/215 (has been Q2 for five years since 2015)

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).