| The British industrial revolution in global perspective RC Allen Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 2387 | 2009 |
| Collective invention RC Allen Journal of economic behavior & organization 4 (1), 1-24, 1983 | 1668 | 1983 |
| The great divergence in European wages and prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War RC Allen Explorations in economic history 38 (4), 411-447, 2001 | 1608 | 2001 |
| Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the South Midlands 1450-1850 RC Allen | 895 | 1992 |
| Global economic history: a very short introduction RC Allen Oxford University Press, 2011 | 641* | 2011 |
| Economic structure and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1300–1800 RC Allen European Review of Economic History 4 (1), 1-25, 2000 | 592 | 2000 |
| Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India RC Allen, JP Bassino, D Ma, C Moll‐Murata, JL Van Zanden The economic history review 64, 8-38, 2011 | 588 | 2011 |
| Farm to factory: A reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution RC Allen Princeton University Press, 2003 | 521 | 2003 |
| Progress and poverty in early modern Europe RC Allen The Economic History Review 56 (3), 403-443, 2003 | 374 | 2003 |
| Engels’ pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the british industrial revolution RC Allen Explorations in Economic History 46 (4), 418-435, 2009 | 326 | 2009 |
| Understanding global trade E Helpman Harvard University Press, 2011 | 306 | 2011 |
| Agriculture during the industrial revolution R Allen The economic history of Britain since 1700 (3), 96-123, 1994 | 283 | 1994 |
| Tracking the agricultural revolution in England RC Allen Economic history review, 209-235, 1999 | 280 | 1999 |
| The colonial origins of the divergence in the Americas: A labor market approach RC Allen, TE Murphy, EB Schneider The Journal of Economic History 72 (4), 863-894, 2012 | 230 | 2012 |
| The efficiency and distributional consequences of eighteenth century enclosures RC Allen The Economic Journal 92 (368), 937-953, 1982 | 199 | 1982 |
| Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution1 RC Allen The Economic History Review 64 (2), 357-384, 2011 | 193 | 2011 |
| International competition in iron and steel, 1850–1913 RC Allen The Journal of Economic History 39 (4), 911-937, 1979 | 182 | 1979 |
| Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt RC Allen Explorations in Economic History 34 (2), 135-154, 1997 | 181 | 1997 |
| The high wage economy and the industrial revolution: a restatement RC Allen The Economic History Review 68 (1), 1-22, 2015 | 178 | 2015 |
| Was there an ‘industrious revolution’before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300–1830 RC Allen, JL Weisdorf The Economic History Review 64 (3), 715-729, 2011 | 174 | 2011 |
