Welcome to the Planetary
Research Cooperative!

We are a non-profit organization that is run by planetary scientists for planetary scientists.

We publish the scientific journal Planetary Research and we run the Planetary Research Blog that promotes planetary science research to experts and non-experts alike. We also host several online services that foster interactions among planetary scientists and that aid researchers in sharing their work with the public.

All our services are free for members.

Planetary Research

Planetary Research is a diamond open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed scientific research in the field of planetary science. The journal does not charge authors any fees and the journal content is free to access.

Planetary Research Blog

The Planetary Research Blog is a web site that publishes announcements, commentaries, blogs, and short summaries of cutting-edge research that are accessible to both the broad scientific community and non-experts alike.

Reviewer Expertise Database

Sign up to be a reviewer for the journal Planetary Research by providing your ORCID iD, an email, and your areas of expertise.

Signatories

Signatories is an open source web app that allows you to sign a petition, a letter of support, or any statement that is looking for community support. Signing is accomplished by authenticating with an ORCID account.

Mattermost
Peertube
Mastodon

Membership

Anyone who is part of the planetary science community may sign up to become a member of the Planetary Research Cooperative. After accepting the association’s code of conduct, membership is free and valid for life.

Membership benefits

  • Access our Mattermost forum and create private teams for professional activities
  • Upload videos to our Peertube server
  • Create a social media account on our Mastodon server
  • Publish on our Blog
  • Create events on our Indico server.
  • Sign up for association and journal newsletters
  • Vote and elect the association’s directors
  • Access private content
  • And more!