Understanding urologic scientific publication patterns and general public interests on stone disease: lessons learned from big data platforms.

To analyse patterns of stone disease online information-seeking behaviours in the United States and to correlate with urological literature publication aspects.

To compare Relative Search Volume (RSV) among different twelve preselected urologic keywords we chose "United States" as country and "01/01/2009-31/12/2018" as time range on Google Trends (GT).