| The British industrial revolution in global perspective RC Allen Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 2658 | 2009 |
| Collective invention RC Allen Journal of economic behavior & organization 4 (1), 1-24, 1983 | 1716 | 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 | 1707 | 2001 |
| Enclosure and the yeoman: the agricultural development of the South Midlands 1450-1850 RC Allen Oxford University Press, 1992 | 936 | 1992 |
| Global economic history: a very short introduction RC Allen Oxford University Press, USA, 2011 | 889* | 2011 |
| 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 | 644 | 2011 |
| Economic structure and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1300–1800 RC Allen European Review of Economic History 4 (1), 1-25, 2000 | 621 | 2000 |
| Farm to factory: A reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution RC Allen Princeton University Press, 2003 | 571 | 2003 |
| Progress and poverty in early modern Europe RC Allen The Economic History Review 56 (3), 403-443, 2003 | 401 | 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 | 375 | 2009 |
| Understanding Global Trade E Helpman the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 | 357 | 2011 |
| Agriculture during the industrial revolution R Allen The economic history of Britain since 1700 (3), 96-123, 1994 | 299 | 1994 |
| Tracking the agricultural revolution in England RC Allen Economic history review, 209-235, 1999 | 298 | 1999 |
| The industrial revolution: A very short introduction RC Allen Oxford University Press, 2017 | 291* | 2017 |
| 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 | 249 | 2012 |
| Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution1 RC Allen The Economic History Review 64 (2), 357-384, 2011 | 224 | 2011 |
| Absolute poverty: When necessity displaces desire RC Allen American economic review 107 (12), 3690-3721, 2017 | 215 | 2017 |
| The high wage economy and the industrial revolution: a restatement RC Allen The Economic History Review 68 (1), 1-22, 2015 | 210 | 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 | 204 | 2011 |
| The efficiency and distributional consequences of eighteenth century enclosures RC Allen The Economic Journal 92 (368), 937-953, 1982 | 203 | 1982 |
