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Origin of life: The RNA world
Access & Citations
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- 49k
- Article Accesses
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- 2524
- Citations
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Online attention
- 7 tweeters
- 17 blogs
- 2 Facebook pages
- 25 news outlets
- 1 Video uploaders
- 55 Wikipedia page
- 1001 Mendeley
- 7 Citeulike
- 2 Connotea
This article is in the 99th percentile (ranked 15th) of the 12,422 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 98th percentile (ranked 2nd) of the 150 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature
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Mentions in news and blogs
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American Physical Society - Physics -
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The Conversation -
Your Grandmother Was A Molecule
Life, Unbounded -
"Microbiology's Scarred Revolutionary": Carl Woese, RIP
Evolution News & Views -
Exon Shuffling, and the Origins of Protein Folds
Evolution News & Views -
Book Review: Fred Sanger's biography
CoreGenomics -
TWiV 526: In the beginning there was pol
This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello -
Purines and Pyrimidines: Structure out of Soup
Chemistry Community
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