The International Journal of Paramedicine (IJOP) is an international forum for scholarly contributions and state-of-the-art research relevant to patient care and the growth and advancement of paramedicine. This will include the areas of paramedic leadership, management, education, operations, culture, and professional and clinical practice. The IJOP encourages exploration of paramedicine from diverse theoretical and practical views from all disciplines including: business and economics; the natural, basic, and applied sciences; and the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Priority will be given to submissions that use sound theoretical or conceptual frameworks, apply strong methodological design, and have relevance to the international paramedic community. All methodologies (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, knowledge syntheses) will be considered.

The Journal is published and copyrighted by the National EMS Managament Association (USA). Publishing in IJOP allows authors to keep their copyright while giving IJOP unrestricted copyright permissions. Articles published in IJOP use Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) licensing.  This license requires that re-users give credit to the creator. It allows re-users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, even for commercial purposes. Additional terms apply and can be accessed here.Publishing in IJOP also allows authors to have contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the Journal's published version of the article, such as posting to an institutional repository or publication in a book, on the condition that the original publication in the original layout format in IJOP is retained and acknowledged.

We permit and encourage authors to post the articles they published in IJOP on their affiliated websites. This helps share the information, encourages citation in other works, and promotes scholarly discourse in the spirit of open access.