Dr. William R. Cullen from UBC’s Department of Chemistry has authored a fascinating book dealing with that most interesting of compounds – arsenic.
For a detailed blurb and table of contents of Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac?, go to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac? is available in the UBC Library at the following Call Number.
A search of the Scifinder Scholar database reveals 393 papers written by Dr. Cullen with the earliest paper dealing with arsenic compounds published in a 1959 issue of the Journal of the Chemical Society.
Searching the Web of Science database for Cullen, WR and then sorting for most cited reveals that the article Arsenic Speciation in the Environment published by Cullen and Reimer in volume 89 of Chemical Reviews has been cited a cool 924 times.
Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Liaison Librarian for Chemistry UBC-Vancouver
As a follow-up to this post, based upon 269 published articles Dr. Cullen’s h-index is 45.