diff --git a/administrator/components/com_categories/models/categories.php b/administrator/components/com_categories/models/categories.php
index ea37d06f26446..ec1246bd62d79 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_categories/models/categories.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_categories/models/categories.php
@@ -234,11 +234,6 @@ protected function getListQuery()
 			{
 				$query->where('a.id = ' . (int) substr($search, 3));
 			}
-			elseif (stripos($search, 'author:') === 0)
-			{
-				$search = $db->quote('%' . $db->escape(substr($search, 7), true) . '%');
-				$query->where('(ua.name LIKE ' . $search . ' OR ua.username LIKE ' . $search . ')');
-			}
 			else
 			{
 				$search = $db->quote('%' . str_replace(' ', '%', $db->escape(trim($search), true) . '%'));
diff --git a/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_categories.ini b/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_categories.ini
index b2de2715dada4..642c732f0bbcf 100644
--- a/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_categories.ini
+++ b/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_categories.ini
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ COM_CATEGORIES_FIELD_PARENT_LABEL="Parent"
 COM_CATEGORIES_FIELDSET_DETAILS="Category Details"
 COM_CATEGORIES_FIELDSET_PUBLISHING="Publishing"
 COM_CATEGORIES_FIELDSET_RULES="Permissions"
-COM_CATEGORIES_FILTER_SEARCH_DESC="Search in title, alias and note. Prefix with ID: or AUTHOR: to search for a category ID or category author."
+COM_CATEGORIES_FILTER_SEARCH_DESC="Search in title, alias and note. Prefix with ID: to search for a category ID."
 COM_CATEGORIES_FILTER_SEARCH_LABEL="Search Categories"
 COM_CATEGORIES_HAS_SUBCATEGORY_ITEMS="%d items are assigned to this category's subcategories."
 COM_CATEGORIES_HAS_SUBCATEGORY_ITEMS_1="%d item is assigned to one of this category's subcategories."