A publisher provides the infrastructure, policy framework, and administrative backing that lets a journal operate: submission systems, hosting, DOI registration, publisher-level policy pages. A journal is the actual editorial entity — its own scope, its own editorial board, its own Editor-in-Chief making the real accept-or-reject decisions on submitted work.

ICPK does not review manuscripts or participate in editorial decisions for any journal it publishes. That authority sits entirely with each journal's own editorial board. What ICPK does provide is consistent, and applies the same way across every journal under it: the submission platform, DOI and ISSN registration support, publisher-wide policy standards, and administrative continuity.

This separation is why some policies live at the publisher level (privacy, terms of use, general complaints) while others are journal-specific (aims and scope, peer review model, article processing charges). A journal-specific question should go to that journal's own editorial contact, not the publisher's general inbox — they are answerable by different people, for a reason.