| Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds BKD Pearce, RE Pudritz, DA Semenov, TK Henning Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (43), 11327-11332, 2017 | 215 | 2017 |
| Constraining the time interval for the origin of life on Earth BKD Pearce, AS Tupper, RE Pudritz, PG Higgs Astrobiology 18 (3), 343-364, 2018 | 121 | 2018 |
| Seeding the pregenetic Earth: Meteoritic abundances of nucleobases and potential reaction pathways BKD Pearce, RE Pudritz The Astrophysical Journal 807 (1), 85, 2015 | 51 | 2015 |
| Meteoritic abundances of fatty acids and potential reaction pathways in planetesimals JCY Lai, BKD Pearce, RE Pudritz, D Lee Icarus 319, 685-700, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Toward RNA life on early Earth: From atmospheric HCN to biomolecule production in warm little ponds BKD Pearce, K Molaverdikhani, RE Pudritz, T Henning, KE Cerrillo The Astrophysical Journal 932 (1), 9, 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
| Meteorites and the RNA world: A thermodynamic model of nucleobase synthesis within planetesimals BKD Pearce, RE Pudritz Astrobiology 16 (11), 853-872, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| A consistent reduced network for HCN chemistry in early earth and Titan atmospheres: Quantum calculations of reaction rate coefficients BKD Pearce, PW Ayers, RE Pudritz The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123 (9), 1861-1873, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Nature’s starships. II. Simulating the synthesis of amino acids in meteorite parent bodies AK Cobb, RE Pudritz, BKD Pearce The Astrophysical Journal 809 (1), 6, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| HCN production in Titan’s Atmosphere: Coupling quantum chemistry and disequilibrium atmospheric modeling BKD Pearce, K Molaverdikhani, RE Pudritz, T Henning, E Hébrard The Astrophysical Journal 901 (2), 110, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Possible ribose synthesis in carbonaceous planetesimals K Paschek, K Kohler, BKD Pearce, K Lange, TK Henning, O Trapp, ... Life 12 (3), 404, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| An experimental and theoretical investigation of HCN production in the Hadean Earth atmosphere BKD Pearce, C He, SM Horst ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 6 (10), 2385-2399, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Meteorites and the RNA World: Synthesis of Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Planetesimals and the Role of Initial Volatile Content K Paschek, DA Semenov, BKD Pearce, K Lange, TK Henning, RE Pudritz The Astrophysical Journal 942 (1), 50, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| Crahcn-o: A consistent reduced atmospheric hybrid chemical network oxygen extension for hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde chemistry in CO2-, N2-, H2O-, CH4-, and H2-dominated … BKD Pearce, PW Ayers, RE Pudritz The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 124 (41), 8594-8606, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Organic hazes as a source of life’s building blocks to warm little ponds on the Hadean Earth BKD Pearce, SM Hörst, JA Sebree, C He The Planetary Science Journal 5 (1), 23, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elucidating Planetary Scenarios That May Lead to an Origin of Life in Warm Little Ponds H Brown, DR Chavas, BKD Pearce, SL Olson 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Impacts on Ocean Worlds are sufficiently frequent and energetic to be of astrobiological importance S MacKenzie, A Pontefract, RT Daly, J Buffo, BKD Pearce, SM Horst, ... 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Shock Experiments to Inform Dragonfly about Prebiotic Chemistry on Titan BKD Pearce, SM Horst, CJ Cline, MJ Cintala, C He, J Sebree, ... 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Improving Atmospheric Models with Computational Quantum Chemistry BKD Pearce, RE Pudritz, P Ayers, K Molaverdikhani, SM Horst, E Hébrard, ... 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Towards Prebiotic Chemistry on Titan: Impact experiments on organic haze particles BKD Pearce, SM Hörst, CJ Cline, MJ Cintala, C He, JA Sebree, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00029, 2024 | | 2024 |
| What it takes to solve the Origin (s) of Life: An integrated review of techniques S Asche, C Bautista, D Boulesteix, A Champagne-Ruel, C Mathis, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11665, 2023 | | 2023 |
Ralph E. PudritzProfessor of Physics and Astronomy, Director Origins Inst., McMaster UniversityVerified email at mcmaster.ca
