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Judging Evidence Quality
Journal vs. platform vs. publisher
A journal is a specific titled publication (e.g., Journal of Cleaner Production). A platform hosts many journals (e.g., ScienceDirect). A publisher owns and produces journals (e.g., Elsevier). Conflating the three makes it hard to correctly evaluate a source's actual quality signals.
In context
You'll usually need this when you're not sure whether you're actually evaluating the journal, its host platform, or its publisher.