Google Scholar @ USC: Advanced Search Options

Search by author - use variants

Author search is usually [author:Lastname] Sometimes you will need to add a first initial, and if you do you should use quotation marks. Also, you should try variant spellings.
For example: To find works by Antonio Damasio, you should try
[author:damasio],
[author:"a damasio"],
and
[author:"antonio damasio"].

Exclude terms from your search

Put the minus symbol ("-") before 1st letter to exclude a word.
For example, [flowers -author:flowers] returns papers about flowers, and ignores papers written by people with the name Flowers

If you would like some more tips on searching in Google Scholar, check out their Search Tips page:

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch.html