Is Lecture Notes by Springer a journal?
The Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (and its related sub-series) are rather odd publications.  The DBLP bibliography server marks them as a journal in one way, but categorizes them as a series in another way, and they are structured and reviewed more like conference proceedings or collections of book chapters.  

I personally would not think of them as being the equivalent of a journal publication.  Whether they count as a journal publication for a particular organization's set of regulations, however, is something that only that organization can determine.