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Brian Perron

University of Michigan

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

7

DOWNLOADS

548

TOTAL CITATIONS

0

Scholarly Papers (7)

1.

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Early Child Maltreatment

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2026
University of Michigan School of Social Work, Duke University, University of Michigan, University of Michigan and Wayne State University
Downloads 205 (397,477)

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unconditional cash transfers, child maltreatment

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Easier to Write, Harder to Read: AI-Assisted Authorship and Writing-Quality Decline in Social Work Conference Abstracts

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 May 2026 Last Revised: 07 May 2026
Brian Perron
University of Michigan
Downloads 129 (664,543)

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conference abstracts, artificial intelligence, generative ai, scientometrics, Society for Social Work & Research (SSWR), text analysis, EditLens

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Tenure and Promotion in the Age of AI: Why Academia Needs to Start Talking Now

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 May 2026
Brian Perron
University of Michigan
Downloads 83 (970,490)

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Tenure and Promotion, Research Assessment, Generative AI, AI-Assisted Scholarship, Academic Productivity, Peer Review, Scholarly Evaluation, Research Integrity, Social Work Education, DORA

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Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and the Risk of Subsequent Maltreatment

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Sep 2024
University of Michigan School of Social Work, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan, Wayne State University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 71 (916,100)

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substance exposed infants, cannabis, maltreatment, racial bias, child protection

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Bibliometric Analysis, Conference Abstracts, Social Work Research, Small Language Models, SSWR, Scientometrics

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Not All Language Models Are Generative: A Methods Primer on Encoder Models in Social Work Research

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 May 2026
Brian Perron, Dragan Stoll, Zia Qi, Nari Yoo and Cheng Ren
University of Michigan, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Michigan, University of Michigan and University at Albany, SUNY
Downloads 24 (1,509,872)

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language models, encoder models, text classification, machine learning, child welfare, benchmarking, ModernBERT

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Searching the Literature by Meaning: Benchmarking Free and Commercial Word Embedding Models on Social Work Text

Number of pages: 31
Brian Perron, Miao Wang, Nanyi Deng and Eunhye Ahn
University of Michigan, Nankai University, Fordham University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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word embeddings, information retrieval, evidence-based practice