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Grip strength in cognitive impairment and dementia research

From 2021 to 2025, 52 animal research papers on cognitive impairment and dementia mentioned grip strength in their title or abstract.

That is 2.9 times the 18 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.7 times as many.

52 papers on cognitive impairment and dementia from 2021 to 2025 mentioned grip strength
1% of the papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention any test mention grip strength
4% of the papers that mention grip strength are on cognitive impairment and dementia
2.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention grip strength, 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
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20071
20081
20091
20102
20116
20125
20131
20146
20150
20163
20172
20181
20194
20205
202112
202212
202310
20246
202512
2026 (part year)10

Papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention grip strength fell from 12 in 2021 to 6 in 2024, then rose to 12 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 52 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
34 papers 65%
Rat
18 papers 35%
Other animals
1 paper 2%

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

Tests mentioned alongside grip strength

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 52 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 9 (17%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

13 papers 25%
12 papers 23%
10 papers 19%
9 papers 17%
6 papers 12%
5 papers 10%
5 papers 10%
4 papers 8%
3 papers 6%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions grip strength in its title or abstract, and studies cognitive impairment and dementia.

We tell whether a paper studies cognitive impairment and dementia 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 cognitive impairment and dementia research names the subject headings we count as cognitive impairment and dementia. Download the test list for the search terms we used for grip strength, 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.

The page on grip strength counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on cognitive impairment and dementia research ranks the tests by their papers on cognitive impairment and dementia.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Grip strength in cognitive impairment and dementia research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/cognitive-impairment/grip-strength

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_cognitive_impairment_grip_strength_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Grip strength in cognitive impairment and dementia research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/cognitive-impairment/grip-strength},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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