- Foote, Searra, Pritvik Sinhadc, Cole Mathis, and Sara Imari Walker. False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00634 (2022).
- Smith, Harrison B., and Cole Mathis. “The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07921 (2022).
- Lockey, David, Cole Mathis, Haralampos N. Miras, and Leroy Cronin. Investigating the autocatalytically driven formation of Keggin-based polyoxometalate clusters. Matter 5, no. 1 (2022): 302-313. PDF bib
- Doran, David, Emma Clarke, Graham Keenan, Emma Carrick, Cole Mathis, and Leroy Cronin. Exploring the sequence space of unknown oligomers and polymers. Cell Reports Physical Science 2, no. 12 (2021): 100685. PDF bib
- Liu, Yu, Cole Mathis, Michał Dariusz Bajczyk, Stuart M. Marshall, Liam Wilbraham, and Leroy Cronin. Exploring and mapping chemical space with molecular assembly trees. Science advances 7, no. 39 (2021): eabj2465. PDF bib
- Asche, Silke, Geoffrey JT Cooper, Graham Keenan, Cole Mathis, and Leroy Cronin. A robotic prebiotic chemist probes long term reactions of complexifying mixtures. Nature communications 12, no. 1 (2021): 1-9. PDF bib
- Marshall, Stuart, Cole Mathis, Emma Carrick, Graham Keenan, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Heather Graham, Matthew Craven, Piotr S. Gromski, Douglas G. Moore, Sara. I. Walker, Leroy Cronin Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry (2021), Nature Communications, 3033 PDF bib
- Miras, Haralampos N and Mathis, Cole and Xuan, Weimin and Long, De-Liang and Pow, Robert and Cronin, Leroy Spontaneous formation of autocatalytic sets with self-replicating inorganic metal oxide clusters (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10699–10705 PDF bib
- Mathis, Cole Meaning of the Living State (2020), Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology, 91 PDF bib
- Antonioni, Alberto and Martinez-Vaquero, Luis A and Mathis, Cole and Peel, Leto and Stella, Massimo Individual perception dynamics in drunk games (2019), Physical Review E, 052311 PDF bib
- Surman, Andrew J and Rodriguez-Garcia, Marc and Abul-Haija, Yousef M and Cooper, Geoffrey JT and Gromski, Piotr S and Turk-MacLeod, Rebecca and Mullin, Margaret and Mathis, Cole and Walker, Sara I and Cronin, Leroy Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions (2019), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5387–5392 PDF bib
- Kim, Hyunju and Smith, Harrison B and Mathis, Cole and Raymond, Jason and Walker, Sara I Universal scaling across biochemical networks on Earth (2019), Science Advances, 0149 PDF bib
- Walker, Sara Imari and Mathis, Cole Network Theory in Prebiotic Evolution (2018), Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids, 263–291 PDF bib
- Mathis, Cole and Ramprasad, Sanjay N and Walker, Sara Imari and Lehman, Niles Prebiotic RNA Network Formation: A Taxonomy of Molecular Cooperation (2017), Life, 38 PDF bib
- Mathis, Cole and Bhattacharya, Tanmoy and Walker, Sara Imari The emergence of life as a first-order phase transition (2017), Astrobiology, 266–276 PDF bib