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Novelty-suppressed feeding in anxiety research

From 2021 to 2025, 94 animal research papers on anxiety mentioned novelty-suppressed feeding in their title or abstract.

That is 1.3 times the 72 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on anxiety that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew about as fast, to 1.3 times as many.

94 papers on anxiety from 2021 to 2025 mentioned novelty-suppressed feeding
3% of the papers on anxiety that mention any test mention novelty-suppressed feeding
36% of the papers that mention novelty-suppressed feeding are on anxiety
1.3 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on anxiety that mention novelty-suppressed feeding, 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
20010
20021
20032
20042
20053
20061
20075
20085
200911
201011
201114
201211
201317
201413
201517
201621
201718
201815
201915
202022
202119
202213
202310
202425
202527
2026 (part year)13

Papers on anxiety that mention novelty-suppressed feeding fell from 19 in 2021 to 10 in 2023, then rose to 27 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. Where PubMed has indexed a paper, we take its disease models from that indexing. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted here. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 94 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
56 papers 60%
Rat
42 papers 45%

Tests mentioned alongside novelty-suppressed feeding

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 94 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 8 (9%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

52 papers 55%
43 papers 46%
29 papers 31%
14 papers 15%
11 papers 12%
8 papers 9%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions novelty-suppressed feeding in its title or abstract, and studies anxiety.

We tell whether a paper studies anxiety 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 anxiety research names the subject headings we count as anxiety. Download the test list for the search terms we used for novelty-suppressed feeding, 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 novelty-suppressed feeding

The page on novelty-suppressed feeding counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on anxiety research ranks the tests by their papers on anxiety.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Novelty-suppressed feeding in anxiety research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/anxiety/novelty-suppressed-feeding

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_anxiety_novelty_suppressed_feeding_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Novelty-suppressed feeding in anxiety research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/anxiety/novelty-suppressed-feeding},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}