Life (Simple English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Life" in Simple English language version.

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174worldcat.org

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adsabs.harvard.edu (Global: 14^th place; Simple English: 17^th place)

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Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
Newman, M. E. J.; Palmer, R. G. (1999-08-06). "Models of Extinction: A Review". arXiv:adap-org/9908002. Bibcode:1999adap.org..8002N. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

americanscientist.org (Global: 9,393^rd place; Simple English: 1,860^th place)

Trefil, James; Morowitz, Harold J.; Smith, Eric (2017-02-06). "The Origin of Life". American Scientist. Archived from the original on 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-04-02.

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; Simple English: 3^rd place)

Starr, Cecie (2006). Biology : concepts and applications. Christine A. Evers, Lisa Starr (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks/Cole. ISBN 0-534-46223-5. OCLC 57966041.
Freeman, Scott (2011). Biological Science (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-321-59796-0. OCLC 472790415.
Newman, M. E. J.; Palmer, R. G. (1999-08-06). "Models of Extinction: A Review". arXiv:adap-org/9908002. Bibcode:1999adap.org..8002N. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; Simple English: 69^th place)

Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
Newman, M. E. J.; Palmer, R. G. (1999-08-06). "Models of Extinction: A Review". arXiv:adap-org/9908002. Bibcode:1999adap.org..8002N. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; Simple English: 2^nd place)

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Executive Committee (May 2020). "The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks". Nature Microbiology. 5 (5): 668–674. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0709-x. ISSN 2058-5276. PMC 7186216. PMID 32341570.
Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.

nasa.gov (Global: 12^th place; Simple English: 39^th place)

astrobiology.gsfc.nasa.gov

Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.

nasa.gov

"NASA - Water: The Molecule of Life An Interview with Philip Ball". www.nasa.gov. 2007-11-30. Archived from the original on 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

nature.com (Global: 207^th place; Simple English: 117^th place)

"What Is a Cell?". Scitable by Nature Education. 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-11-03. Retrieved 2021-03-28.

nih.gov (Global: 5^th place; Simple English: 5^th place)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Executive Committee (May 2020). "The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks". Nature Microbiology. 5 (5): 668–674. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0709-x. ISSN 2058-5276. PMC 7186216. PMID 32341570.
Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Executive Committee (May 2020). "The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks". Nature Microbiology. 5 (5): 668–674. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0709-x. ISSN 2058-5276. PMC 7186216. PMID 32341570.

phys.org (Global: 1,595^th place; Simple English: 1,160^th place)

"A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth". phys.org. University of Bristol. 20 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-04-02.

quantamagazine.org (Global: 6,258^th place; Simple English: 2,807^th place)

Wilcox, Christie (24 June 2019). "What's in a name? Taxonomy problems vex biologists". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

sciencemag.org (Global: 1,019^th place; Simple English: 248^th place)

Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.

semanticscholar.org (Global: 15^th place; Simple English: 11^th place)

api.semanticscholar.org

Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; Simple English: 1^st place)

Koshland, Jr., Daniel E. (22 March 2002). "The seven pillars of life". Science. 295 (5563): 2215–2216. Bibcode:2002Sci...295.2215K. doi:10.1126/science.1068489. PMID 11910092. S2CID 153363768. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
Martins, Zita (2008). "Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 270 (1–2). Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel, Mark A. Sephton, Daniel P. Glavin, Jonathan S. Watson, Jason P. Dworkin, Alan W. Schwartz, Pascale Ehrenfreund: 130–136. arXiv:0806.2286. Bibcode:2008E&PSL.270..130M. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.026. S2CID 14309508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
Hotz, Robert Lee (3 December 2010). "New link in chain of life". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Until now, however, they were all thought to share the same biochemistry, based on the Big Six, to build proteins, fats and DNA.
"NASA - Water: The Molecule of Life An Interview with Philip Ball". www.nasa.gov. 2007-11-30. Archived from the original on 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
"What Is a Cell?". Scitable by Nature Education. 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-11-03. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
Wilcox, Christie (24 June 2019). "What's in a name? Taxonomy problems vex biologists". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
"A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth". phys.org. University of Bristol. 20 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
"Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago". news.wisc.edu. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
Trefil, James; Morowitz, Harold J.; Smith, Eric (2017-02-06). "The Origin of Life". American Scientist. Archived from the original on 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-04-02.

wisc.edu (Global: 891^st place; Simple English: 676^th place)

news.wisc.edu

"Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago". news.wisc.edu. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-05-31. Retrieved 2021-05-01.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; Simple English: 6^th place)

search.worldcat.org

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Executive Committee (May 2020). "The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks". Nature Microbiology. 5 (5): 668–674. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0709-x. ISSN 2058-5276. PMC 7186216. PMID 32341570.
Starr, Cecie (2006). Biology : concepts and applications. Christine A. Evers, Lisa Starr (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks/Cole. ISBN 0-534-46223-5. OCLC 57966041.
Luketa, Stefan (2012). "New views on the megaclassification of life". Protistology. 7 (4): 218–237. ISSN 1680-0826.
Freeman, Scott (2011). Biological Science (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-321-59796-0. OCLC 472790415.

wsj.com (Global: 94^th place; Simple English: 90^th place)

Hotz, Robert Lee (3 December 2010). "New link in chain of life". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Until now, however, they were all thought to share the same biochemistry, based on the Big Six, to build proteins, fats and DNA.

Life (Simple English Wikipedia)

adsabs.harvard.edu (Global: 14th place; Simple English: 17th place)

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

americanscientist.org (Global: 9,393rd place; Simple English: 1,860th place)

archive.org (Global: 6th place; Simple English: 3rd place)

arxiv.org (Global: 49th place; Simple English: 69th place)

doi.org (Global: 2nd place; Simple English: 2nd place)

nasa.gov (Global: 12th place; Simple English: 39th place)

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nature.com (Global: 207th place; Simple English: 117th place)

nih.gov (Global: 5th place; Simple English: 5th place)