William Epstein

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
179 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

William Epstein is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Epstein has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Social Psychology and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in William Epstein's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (51 papers), Social Work Education and Practice (19 papers) and Color perception and design (19 papers). William Epstein is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (51 papers), Social Work Education and Practice (19 papers) and Color perception and design (19 papers). William Epstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and India. William Epstein's co-authors include Arthur M. Glenberg, Dennis R. Proffítt, Jessica K. Witt, Gary Hatfield, Tom Banton, Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Alex Cherry Wilkinson, Thomas Sanocki, Sheena Rogers and John Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

William Epstein

164 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Stability and constancy in visual perception : mechanisms... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Stability and constancy in visual perception : mechanisms and processes
    1977 400 citations William Epstein Wiley eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Epstein United States 34 3.4k 1.4k 1.3k 1.2k 404 179 5.6k
Charles K. West United States 12 2.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 740 0.6× 224 0.6× 43 5.3k
Ralph Norman Haber United States 35 2.7k 0.8× 869 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 835 0.7× 257 0.6× 107 5.1k
David Navon Israel 30 5.4k 1.6× 1.7k 1.2× 2.0k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 333 0.8× 86 7.4k
Robert L. Solso United States 18 3.0k 0.9× 867 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 1.9k 1.6× 761 1.9× 69 5.3k
William G. Chase United States 18 2.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 2.3k 1.8× 2.3k 1.9× 1.1k 2.6× 24 6.4k
Paul A. Kolers Canada 37 3.3k 1.0× 643 0.5× 1.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.5× 619 1.5× 77 5.0k
Geoffrey R. Loftus United States 40 6.0k 1.8× 1.6k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.4× 753 1.9× 118 8.8k
W. R. Garner United States 36 4.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.2× 2.9k 2.2× 1.4k 1.2× 954 2.4× 89 8.2k
Ronald A. Finke United States 30 2.3k 0.7× 946 0.7× 2.0k 1.6× 674 0.6× 244 0.6× 59 4.2k
Kathy Pezdek United States 35 2.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 779 0.6× 873 0.7× 242 0.6× 122 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by William Epstein

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Epstein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Epstein

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Epstein, William. (2015). Democracy Without Decency. Penn State University Press eBooks.
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Proffítt, Dennis R., Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Tom Banton, & William Epstein. (2006). Reply to Hutchison and Loomis. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 9(2). 340–342. 12 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (2006). The Lighter Side of Deception Research in the Social Sciences: Social Work as Comedy. PubMed. 15(1). 11–26. 1 indexed citations
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Lieberman, Robert C. & William Epstein. (1999). Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor.. Social Forces. 77(3). 1202–1202. 20 indexed citations
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Epstein, William & Sheena Rogers. (1995). Perception of space and motion. Academic Press eBooks. 169 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1993). Randomized controlled trials in the human services. Social Work Research and Abstracts. 29(3). 3–10. 10 indexed citations
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Epstein, William, et al.. (1992). Attentional demands of processing shape in three-dimensional space: Evidence from visual search and precuing paradigms.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 18(2). 503–511. 4 indexed citations
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Hughes, Barry, et al.. (1990). An asymmetry in transmodal perceptual learning. Perception & Psychophysics. 48(2). 143–150. 10 indexed citations
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Epstein, William, et al.. (1990). In search of depth. Perception & Psychophysics. 48(1). 68–76. 16 indexed citations
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Epstein, William, Barry Hughes, Sandra L. Schneider, & Paul Bach‐y‐Rita. (1989). Perceptual learning of spatiotemporal events: Evidence from an unfamiliar modality.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 15(1). 28–44. 29 indexed citations
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Glenberg, Arthur M. & William Epstein. (1987). Inexpert calibration of comprehension. Memory & Cognition. 15(1). 84–93. 220 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1984). The Public Purpose Limitation on the Power of Eminent Domain: A Constitutional Liberty under Attack. Pace law review. 4(2). 231–231. 2 indexed citations
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Epstein, William & Bernard T. Feld. (1981). New directions in disarmament. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 9 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1981). The Classical Tradition of Dialectics and American Legal Education.. Journal of legal education. 31. 1 indexed citations
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Hirst, Eric, Frank Barnaby, John Isaacs, et al.. (1981). Commentary. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 37(5). 10–64. 1 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1977). Stability and constancy in visual perception : mechanisms and processes. Wiley eBooks. 400 indexed citations breakdown →
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Epstein, William, et al.. (1977). Is the discrimination of motion-path length unique?. Perception & Psychophysics. 22(2). 152–158. 1 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1972). Retention of adaptation to uniocular image magnification: Effect of interpolated activity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 92(3). 319–324. 16 indexed citations
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Epstein, William. (1971). David Brewster’s observations on perception when touch and vision conflict: An historical note. Perception & Psychophysics. 10(2). 97–97. 4 indexed citations
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Epstein, William, et al.. (1965). The frequency of grammatical classes in the production of verbal strings under two response sets. Psychonomic Science. 3(1-12). 555–556. 1 indexed citations

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