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Three-chamber sociability test in anxiety research

From 2021 to 2025, 53 animal research papers on anxiety mentioned the three-chamber sociability test in their title or abstract.

That is 3.5 times the 15 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on anxiety that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.3 times as many.

53 papers on anxiety from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the three-chamber sociability test
2% of the papers on anxiety that mention any test mention the three-chamber sociability test
16% of the papers that mention the three-chamber sociability test are on anxiety
3.5 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on anxiety that mention the three-chamber sociability 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
YearPapers
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20030
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20050
20060
20070
20080
20094
20101
20113
20123
20132
20142
20155
20165
20176
20188
201913
20208
20217
202211
202312
202410
202513
2026 (part year)10

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 53 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
32 papers 60%
Rat
19 papers 36%
Zebrafish
2 papers 4%

Tests mentioned alongside the three-chamber sociability test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 53 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 4 (8%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

30 papers 57%
18 papers 34%
8 papers 15%
8 papers 15%
6 papers 11%
6 papers 11%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the three-chamber sociability test 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 the three-chamber sociability test, 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 three-chamber sociability test

The page on the three-chamber sociability test 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). Three-chamber sociability test in anxiety research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/anxiety/three-chamber-sociability

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_anxiety_three_chamber_sociability_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Three-chamber sociability test in anxiety research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/anxiety/three-chamber-sociability},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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