Research data · Fear and avoidance
Active avoidance (shuttle box)
From 2021 to 2025, 210 animal research papers mentioned active avoidance (shuttle box) in their title or abstract, ranking it 40th of the 90 tests we track.
That is 17% fewer than the 252 papers of 2011 to 2015. Papers that mention any of the 90 tests rose 22% over the same span. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention active avoidance (shuttle box), by year, 2001 to 2026
The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.
- Papers in a full year
- 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 65 |
| 2002 | 59 |
| 2003 | 58 |
| 2004 | 48 |
| 2005 | 45 |
| 2006 | 49 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 51 |
| 2009 | 47 |
| 2010 | 48 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 40 |
| 2013 | 51 |
| 2014 | 60 |
| 2015 | 57 |
| 2016 | 43 |
| 2017 | 41 |
| 2018 | 39 |
| 2019 | 48 |
| 2020 | 46 |
| 2021 | 53 |
| 2022 | 36 |
| 2023 | 37 |
| 2024 | 43 |
| 2025 | 41 |
| 2026 (part year) | 64 |
Papers that mention active avoidance (shuttle box) fell from 53 in 2021 to 36 in 2022, then rose to 41 in 2025. Papers that PubMed indexed under the MeSH heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025. We take each paper's species from PubMed's indexing whenever it names one, so part of this dip may come from the indexing rather than from fewer studies.
Rats led mice every year from 2001 to 2025.
Papers that mention active avoidance (shuttle box) in mice and in rats, by year, 2001 to 2025
- Mouse
- Rat
Show the counts for each year and species
| Year | Mouse | Rat |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 51 |
| 2002 | 12 | 46 |
| 2003 | 8 | 49 |
| 2004 | 8 | 35 |
| 2005 | 8 | 36 |
| 2006 | 9 | 39 |
| 2007 | 7 | 32 |
| 2008 | 11 | 34 |
| 2009 | 6 | 34 |
| 2010 | 9 | 35 |
| 2011 | 10 | 33 |
| 2012 | 11 | 28 |
| 2013 | 10 | 37 |
| 2014 | 12 | 40 |
| 2015 | 19 | 37 |
| 2016 | 13 | 26 |
| 2017 | 14 | 22 |
| 2018 | 7 | 26 |
| 2019 | 11 | 28 |
| 2020 | 8 | 29 |
| 2021 | 16 | 28 |
| 2022 | 12 | 19 |
| 2023 | 15 | 20 |
| 2024 | 17 | 20 |
| 2025 | 10 | 25 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 210 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the other species in this chart.
Strains and genetic lines
Strain names come from the MeSH terms PubMed adds when it indexes a paper. PubMed has indexed 167 of the 210 papers, so each bar is a share of those 167.
A paper indexed under two of these headings, such as knockout mice and a strain, counts under both.
Disease models these papers study
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention active avoidance (shuttle box) and study that disease model, with its share of the 210 papers. The model comes from a paper's MeSH terms. For a paper PubMed has not indexed, it comes from PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, when that service finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one model.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 by disease model
Tests mentioned alongside active avoidance (shuttle box)
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests, with its share of the 210 papers that mention active avoidance (shuttle box).
Papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention active avoidance (shuttle box) and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Physiol Behav, 2022. 110 citations.
Vision rescue via unconstrained in vivo prime editing in degenerating neural retinas.
J Exp Med, 2023. 81 citations.
Mol Med, 2023. 67 citations.
Nat Neurosci, 2021. 63 citations.
Nat Commun, 2021. 44 citations.
How we counted
A count is the number of animal research papers whose title or abstract mentions one of the test's search terms. It is not a count of experiments, labs or animals.
A paper that mentions active avoidance (shuttle box) only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 12 reviews. For 43 of the 210 papers, PubMed's indexing gave no species, so the species came from PubTator 3 finding one in the title or abstract.
The test's search terms are in the test list download. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
More fear and avoidance tests
These fear and avoidance tests also have a page, with their papers from 2021 to 2025. Each test with 30 or more papers gets one.
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Active avoidance (shuttle box) in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/active-avoidance
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_active_avoidance_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Active avoidance (shuttle box) in published research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/active-avoidance},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Apparatus for active avoidance (shuttle box)
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