I tried to use this format but it returns data from all the years:
AuthorRetrieval(author_id, refresh=True, kwds='PUBYEAR IS 2022 OR PUBYEAR IS 2021 OR PUBYEAR IS 2020 OR PUBYEAR IS 2019 OR PUBYEAR IS 2018')
To be more specific to my problem, I am trying to get the number of documents that have cited(cited by) excluding the self-cited documents of the past five years.
For the citations I used the parameters start, end(CitationOverview), but I cant find something for the number of cited-by.
That is unfortunately not possible. The Author Retrieval API returns only the current state - just as if you were looking at an Author profile on scopus.com.
The reason why your kwds parameter is ignored is because it's not a valid keyword. It's not made for a Scopus query string. See https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/args-and-kwargs for an overview of what the parameter does.
Your only option is to reconstruct author values from her publications. You can get them with the ScopusSearch() class.
I'd recommend to use a query like "AU-ID(123466)" and then extract the documents based on their publication year. This way it's much more likely that you can re-use the cached results.