where to locate authors' names in sentences?

is it or is it not good practice to make an author the subject of sentences in a paper? when should their name be central, discreet, or absent in the sentence? here are five variations showing different approaches, four of which include the author's name; are there particular identifiable use cases for these styles?

• Johnson argued that this will never work.


• Per Johnson, this will never work.


• The argument was advanced by Johnson that this will never work.


• This will never work (Johnson).


• This will never work.[42]