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You can increase the accuracy and effectiveness of your searches on Google Scholar by adding 'operators' that fine-tune your search terms. In some cases, you can add operators right in the Google Scholar search box; other times, you'll want to use the Advanced Scholar Search page.
Here are the most common Google Scholar operators:
Author Search - Publication Restrict - Date Restrict - Other Operators
Author search
Author search is one of the most effective ways to find a specific paper. If you know who wrote the paper you're looking for, you can simply add their last name to your search terms.
For example:
The search [friedman regression] returns papers on the subject of regression written by people named Friedman. If you want to search on an author's full name, or last name and first initial, enter the name in quotes: ['jh friedman']
When a word is both a person's name and a common noun, you might want to use the 'author:' operator. This operator only affects the search term that immediately follows it, and there must be no space between 'author:' and your search term.
For example:
[author:flowers] returns papers written by people with the name Flowers, whereas [flowers -author:flowers] returns papers about flowers, and ignores papers written by people with the name Flowers (a minus in front of a search term excludes results that contain this search term).
You can enter several author terms, but you'll have to prefix each one with the operator.
For example:
To find articles about regression by JH Friedman, try [author:jh author:friedman regression]. This may "