Note: A more detailed and up-to-date list can be found on my Google Scholar page.
Edited Books
Chan, R. Y., Bista, K., & Allen, R. M. (Eds.). (2021). Online teaching and learning in higher education during COVID-19: International perspectives and experiences. Routledge.
Bista, K., Allen, R. M., & Chan, R. Y. (Eds.). (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 on international students and the future of student mobility: International perspectives and experiences. Routledge.
Allen, R., & Liu J. (Eds.). (2016) Kuo Ping Wen: Scholar, Statesman, and Reformer. San Francisco, CA: Long River Press
Journal Publications
Allen, R. M, Dzubey, K., & Miyoshi, Y. (2024). The Hidden Barriers for International Students at Auto-Centric Universities. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 3(1), 1.
Allen, R., & Allen, Y. (2022). A Bibliometric Exploration into the Global Research Impact of China’s Thousand Talents Brand. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 14(5), 134-170.
Allen, R. M., & McLaren, P. (2022). Protecting the University as a Physical Place in the Age of Postdigitization. Postdigital Science and Education, 4(2), 373-393.
Allen, R., & Bista, K. (2022). Talented, Yet Seen With Suspicion: Surveillance of International Students and Scholars in the United States. Journal of International Students, 12(1), 175-194.
Shahjahan, R. A., Grimm, A., & Allen, R. M. (2021). The “LOOMING DISASTER” for higher education: how commercial rankers use social media to amplify and foster affect. Higher Education, 1-17.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LHT-01-2021-0011/full/html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Allen, R. M. (2021). When peril responds to plague: predatory journal engagement with COVID-19. Library Hi Tech. 39 (3): 746-60.
Allen, R. M. (2019). Commensuration of the globalised higher education sector: how university rankings act as a credential for world-class status in China. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-19.
Allen, R. M. (2019). What Do Students Know about University Rankings? Testing Familiarity and Knowledge of Global and Domestic University League Tables in China. Frontiers of Education in China, 14(1), 59-89.
Kim, H., & Allen R. M. (2018). Glocalizing Cures for China’s Brain Drain Ills: The Thousand Talents Plan in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangdong. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development. 20(1): 16-32.
Allen, R. M. (2017). A Comparison of China’s “Ivy League” to Other Peer Groupings Through Global University Rankings. Journal of Studies in International Education. 21 (5): 395-411.
Book Chapters
Allen, R. M. (2024). “Transformed by Study Abroad From Small-Town Oklahoma to International Academia,” in K. Bista, U. Gaulee, D. M. Whitehead, & B. Zhang (Eds.), Bridging Cultures, Empowering Futures: Global Citizenship and International Education.
Lo, W. Y. W., & Allen, R. M. (2023). “The Rankings Game,” in D. Kapur, L. Kong, & D. M. Malone (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Higher Education in Asia. UK: Oxford University.
Allen, R. M. (2017). “Asia: Far East Aims High for International Student Numbers” in G. Mihut, P. Altbach, & H. de Wit (Eds.), Understanding Higher Education Internationalization Insights from Key Global Publications. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
Allen, R. M. (2016). “Examination of Chinese and American Soft Power through Higher Education,” in C. Chitty & L. Qing (Eds.), China and the World: Theatres of Soft Power. Beijing, China: Communication University of China Press.
Book Reviews
Allen, R. M. Review of Empires of Ideas Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China by William C. Kirby. Coming Soon.
Allen, R. M., & Xiang, Q. (2021). Review of Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies edited by F. Waldow & G. Steiner-Khamsi. Teachers College Record.
Allen, R. M. (2020). Review of Ambitious and Anxious How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education by Y. Ma. The China Quarterly, 242, 591-592.
Allen, R. M. (2016). Review of The Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America: Chinese Undergraduate Students at American Universities by D. Yang. The China Quarterly. 228, 1115-1117.
Allen, R. M. (2013). Review of Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender by J. Hobson. Journal of International Affairs. 67 (1). 287-288.
