| Africa's Evolving Cyber Threats N Allen https://africacenter.org/spotlight/africa-evolving-cyber-threats/, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| Assessing a decade of US military strategy in Africa NDF Allen Orbis 62 (4), 655-669, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| How Boko Haram has regained the initiative and what Nigeria should do to stop it N Allen War on the Rocks 24, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Authoritarian armies and democratizing states: how the military influences African transitional politics N Allen Democratization 26 (2), 247-268, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| The Promises and Perils of Africa's Digital Revolution N Allen https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-promises-and-perils-of-africas …, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Process peace: A new evaluation framework for track II diplomacy N Allen, T Sharp International Negotiation 22 (1), 92-122, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Unpacking “stacking”: Researching political identity and regime security in armed forces N Allen, R Brooks Armed Forces & Society 49 (1), 207-227, 2023 | 11 | 2023 |
| Interrogating Ethnic Stacking: The Uses and Abuses of Security Force Ethnicity in Sudan N Allen | 10 | 2019 |
| How Digital Espionage Tools Exacerbate Authoritarianism Across Africa N Allen, M La Lime https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/how-digital-espionage-tools-exacerbate …, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Charting Boko Haram’s Rapid Decline N Allen War on the Rocks, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Misreading Mali’s Collapse: Governance, Foreign Aid, and Political Instability in Emerging Democracies NDF Allen Journal of Public and International Affairs 23, 7-28, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| The Boko Haram insurgency, by the numbers N Allen, PM Lewis, H Matfess The Washington Post 6, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Artificial intelligence creeps on to the African battlefield N Allen, MI Okpali Brookings Institution, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Deluge of Digital Repression Threatens African Security N Allen, CL Kelly https://africacenter.org/spotlight/deluge-digital-repression-threatens …, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Trump's Africa policy takes form with focus on security (and China) L Signé, NDF Allen The Hill 19, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Unusual Lessons from an Unusual War: Boko Haram and Modern Insurgency NDF Allen | 5* | |
| African Lessons in Cyber Strategy AH Ajijola, NDF Allen https://africacenter.org/spotlight/african-lessons-in-cyber-strategy/, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| How African states can tackle state-backed cyber threats N Allen, N van der Waag-Cowling https://www.brookings.edu/author/noelle-van-der-waag-cowling/, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Unbroken Boko Haram: Buhari Prematurely Declares Victory H Matfess, PM Lewis, NDF Allen Foreign Affairs 21, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| Down, Not Out NDF Allen, PM Lewis, H Matfess Foreign Affairs, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
