Publication candidate — pending trustee adoption. This document is a complete operating proposal, not yet effective policy. It takes effect only when adopted by recorded resolution of the MSK REGEN trustees. It is not legal advice, regulatory accreditation, or a substitute for local clinical, research, employment or institutional governance.
Relationship with ORTST
ORTST is IAMRegen’s official publishing partner under a signed MOU. ORTST is independent, is not owned by IAMRegen and is not IAMRegen’s exclusive publication venue. Submission, invitation or partnership does not guarantee peer review, acceptance, publication, indexing, citation or favourable editorial treatment.
Internal approval is not peer review, and journal publication is not institutional endorsement of every IAMRegen activity.
Editorial roles and recusal
The overlapping ORTST and IAMRegen roles of Professor Feza Korkusuz and Professor Paul Lee are disclosed publicly. Where either is conflicted on an IAMRegen-originated submission, they are recused; an independent, unconflicted editor controls reviewer selection and the decision, and ORTST retains final editorial authority.
Authorship
Authorship follows the applicable IAMRegen and journal criteria (normally ICMJE): documented intellectual contribution, drafting or critical review, final approval and accountability. Guest, gift, honorary, ghost and purchased authorship are prohibited. Completing both Delphi rounds and attending the Congress confers collaborator status, not authorship.
AI and official outputs
AI tools cannot be authors, and unlabelled AI-generated filler content must not be used. Only approved material is described as an “official IAMRegen output”; independently authored contributions that are not official positions must say so. No annual IAMRegen consensus has yet been published; each output will be linked here after publication with its full citation, DOI, authors, conflicts and funding.
- ICMJE authorship and contributorship recommendations
- COPE Core Practices