I have had a quite depressing finding tonight: architects and architecture scholars do not comment on others work in scientific journals. Just log on any database and search for architecture journals and check how many times architecture articles have been cited. Of a list of 3.700 articles that appear once you put in the field "publication" the word "architecture" (and quite a few magazines of archiecture appear) only 17 articles have been cited by anyone. The article with more cites had 15 cites from other articles-books.
In comparison, any article of the journal Nature has around 35.000 cites.
The impact of the magazines of architecture relies on how many times their articles are being cited. What is going on? Diagnosis: architecture articles are not even relevant for architects. Nobody comments on others work.
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