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Catalepsy bar test

Name: Catalepsy bar test in published research
Creator: ConductScience
Published: 2026-11-10

From 2021 to 2025, 244 animal research papers mentioned the catalepsy bar test in their title or abstract, ranking it 38th of the 90 tests we track.

That is 27% fewer than the 332 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.

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244 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the test

27% fewer papers than in 2011 to 2015

38th of the 90 tests by papers from 2021 to 2025

54% of these papers used rats and 51% used mice

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention the catalepsy bar test, 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

Papers by year
Year	Papers
2001	67
2002	56
2003	49
2004	66
2005	68
2006	43
2007	60
2008	74
2009	71
2010	73
2011	64
2012	79
2013	65
2014	63
2015	61
2016	51
2017	57
2018	65
2019	45
2020	52
2021	51
2022	65
2023	46
2024	38
2025	44
2026 (part year)	42

Papers that mention the catalepsy bar test fell from 51 in 2021 to 38 in 2024, then rose to 44 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.

Papers that mention the catalepsy bar test in mice and in rats, by year, 2001 to 2025

Mouse
Rat

Mouse Rat

Show the counts for each year and species

Papers by year, mice and rats
Year	Mouse	Rat
2001	17	45
2002	24	35
2003	20	32
2004	22	51
2005	26	53
2006	23	23
2007	25	40
2008	34	44
2009	28	45
2010	39	37
2011	29	43
2012	44	49
2013	35	38
2014	34	34
2015	33	36
2016	26	28
2017	29	32
2018	29	40
2019	26	25
2020	25	28
2021	27	27
2022	29	40
2023	24	24
2024	21	19
2025	23	22

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 244 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat

132 54%

Mouse

124 51%

Other animals

7 3%

Zebrafish

1 under 1%

“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 187 of the 244 papers, so each bar is a share of those 187.

Wistar rats

41 22%

C57BL mice

32 17%

Sprague-Dawley rats

27 14%

ICR mice

5 3%

Knockout mice

4 2%

Transgenic mice

3 2%

Long-Evans rats

1 1%

Lewis rats

1 1%

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 the catalepsy bar test and study that disease model, with its share of the 244 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

Parkinson disease

100 41%

Schizophrenia and psychosis

26 11%

Cognitive impairment and dementia

14 6%

Anxiety

10 4%

Depression

10 4%

Pain conditions

9 4%

Substance use disorders

6 2%

Aging

3 1%

Epilepsy and seizures

2 1%

Sleep loss and sleep disorders

2 1%

Tests mentioned alongside the catalepsy bar test

Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests, with its share of the 244 papers that mention the catalepsy bar test.

Papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests

Rotarod

39 16%

Open field

26 11%

Forced swim test

22 9%

Novel object recognition

17 7%

Beam walking

15 6%

Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle

11 5%

Elevated plus maze

10 4%

Grip strength

7 3%

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 the catalepsy bar test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 5 reviews. For 57 of the 244 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.

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How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Catalepsy bar test in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/catalepsy-bar-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_catalepsy_bar_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Catalepsy bar test in published research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/catalepsy-bar-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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