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Radial arm maze in Alzheimer disease research

From 2021 to 2025, 47 animal research papers on Alzheimer disease mentioned the radial arm maze in their title or abstract.

That is 1.9 times the 25 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on Alzheimer disease that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 2.8 times as many.

47 papers on Alzheimer disease from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the radial arm maze
2% of the papers on Alzheimer disease that mention any test mention the radial arm maze
21% of the papers that mention the radial arm maze are on Alzheimer disease
1.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on Alzheimer disease that mention the radial arm maze, 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
YearPapers
20013
20021
20031
20043
20052
20064
20072
20086
20092
20103
20113
20123
20136
20146
20157
20161
20174
20186
201910
20207
20214
202211
202313
20249
202510
2026 (part year)10

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 47 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
25 papers 53%
Rat
21 papers 45%
Other animals
1 paper 2%

“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.

Tests mentioned alongside the radial arm maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 47 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 15 (32%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the radial arm maze in its title or abstract, and studies Alzheimer disease.

We tell whether a paper studies Alzheimer disease from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on Alzheimer disease research names the subject headings we count as Alzheimer disease. Download the test list for the search terms we used for the radial arm maze, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

Papers on other disease models that mention the radial arm maze

The page on the radial arm maze counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on Alzheimer disease research ranks the tests by their papers on Alzheimer disease.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Radial arm maze in Alzheimer disease research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/radial-arm-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_alzheimers_disease_radial_arm_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Radial arm maze in Alzheimer disease research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/radial-arm-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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