| Confirmational response bias among social work journals WM Epstein Science, Technology, & Human Values 15 (1), 9-38, 1990 | 178 | 1990 |
| Why states go—and don't go—nuclear W Epstein The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 430 (1 …, 1977 | 116 | 1977 |
| Welfare in America: How social science fails the poor WM Epstein Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1997 | 103 | 1997 |
| Psychotherapy as religion: The civil divine in America WM Epstein University of Nevada Press, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Confirmational response bias and the quality of the editorial processes among American social work journals WM Epstein Research on Social Work Practice 14 (6), 450-458, 2004 | 72 | 2004 |
| The illusion of psychotherapy W Epstein Routledge, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Children who could have been: The legacy of child welfare in wealthy America WM Epstein Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1999 | 56 | 1999 |
| Response bias in opinion polls and American social welfare WM Epstein The Social Science Journal 43 (1), 99-110, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Cleaving in American Attitudes toward Social Welfare WM Epstein J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 31, 177, 2004 | 43 | 2004 |
| The dilemma of American social welfare W Epstein Routledge, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Postmodernism: A dead end in social work epistemology R Caputo, W Epstein, D Stoesz, B Thyer Journal of Social Work Education 51 (4), 638-647, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Science and social work WM Epstein Social Service Review 60 (1), 145-160, 1986 | 33 | 1986 |
| Social work in the university WM Epstein Journal of Social Work Education 31 (2), 281-292, 1995 | 30 | 1995 |
| American policy making: Welfare as ritual WM Epstein Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 | 28 | 2002 |
| Democracy without decency: Good citizenship and the war on poverty WM Epstein Penn State University Press, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| The masses are the ruling classes: Policy romanticism, democratic populism, and social welfare in America W Epstein Oxford University Press, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| Social science, child welfare, and family preservation: A failure of rationality in public policy WM Epstein Children and Youth Services Review 19 (1-2), 41-60, 1997 | 19 | 1997 |
| Randomized controlled trials in the human services WM Epstein Social Work Research and Abstracts 29 (3), 3-10, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| Professionalization of social work: The American experience WM Epstein The Social Science Journal 29 (2), 153-166, 1992 | 18 | 1992 |
| Empowerment as ceremony W Epstein Routledge, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
