[6] David Friedrichs, reviewing this work for the American Reference Books Annual 1992, indicated, "Currently, of course, there is intense concern with prostitution as a source for the transmission of AIDS.
"[7] Vern Bullough and Lilli Sentz annotated this book as, "Is somewhat broader than the title indicates and includes general and history, anthropology, sociology, psychology and mental health.
"[8] After moving to Japan in 1991 to join the group of Osamu Hayaishi (1991–94) at the Osaka Bioscience Institute, Sri Kantha worked on his second reference book, An Einstein Dictionary (1996).
While George Eberhart recommended ‘this volume is useful as a quick fact-finder’[10] and Laurie Brown found it ‘more interesting reading, because of its colorful entries and extensive bibliography and index’,[11] C.D.
[14] In 1992, Sri Kantha published a paper on the prolific productivity of eight prominent scientists, among whom three (Paul Karrer, Giulio Natta and Herbert C. Brown) were chemistry Nobel laureates.
[15][16] As these scientists have published over 1,000 research publications, he gave a humorous tag Kilo Base Goliaths (KBGs) for these super achievers in the laboratory.
Recently John Ioannidis and his colleagues [18] had proposed an almost identical phrase ‘hyper-prolific authors’ for the same group of super achievers, identified as ‘Kilo Base Goliaths’, by Sri Kantha in 1992.
Reese annotated the Lancet letter of Sri Kantha in his weekly column to the Chemical and Engineering News, many American readers contributed the names of chemists and inventors who did become centenarians in the 20th century.
Influenced by the scientometric contributions of Eugene Garfield, Sri Kantha had also puiblished on the scientific productivity and unusual creativity of some elite scientists including Alfred Nobel,[30] Albert Einstein,[31] Karl Landsteiner,[31] Sigmund Freud,[31] Bertrand Russell,[32] Francis Crick,[33][34] James Watson,[35][36][37] William Masters,[38][39] Alex Comfort,[40] and Wardell Pomeroy.
[41] Sri Kantha had also studied the little known facets on medical themes from the works of Shakespeare,[42] Gogol,[43] Mahatma Gandhi,[44] Ryunosuke Akutagawa,[43] and Junichiro Tanizaki.