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Open field in diabetes research

From 2021 to 2025, 72 animal research papers on diabetes mentioned the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 3.4 times the 21 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on diabetes that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.9 times as many.

72 papers on diabetes from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the open field
9% of the papers on diabetes that mention any test mention the open field
2% of the papers that mention the open field are on diabetes
3.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on diabetes that mention the open field, 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
20011
20020
20032
20040
20051
20060
20073
20080
20092
20103
20115
20125
20133
20145
20153
20168
20177
201811
20199
202012
20219
202217
202318
202412
202516
2026 (part year)11

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 72 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
45 papers 63%
Mouse
27 papers 38%
Zebrafish
1 paper 1%

Tests mentioned alongside the open field

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 72 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 14 (19%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

26 papers 36%
24 papers 33%
16 papers 22%
6 papers 8%
6 papers 8%
4 papers 6%
3 papers 4%
3 papers 4%
2 papers 3%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the open field in its title or abstract, and studies diabetes.

We tell whether a paper studies diabetes 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 diabetes research names the subject headings we count as diabetes. Download the test list for the search terms we used for the open field, 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 the open field counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on diabetes research ranks the tests by their papers on diabetes.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Open field in diabetes research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/diabetes/open-field

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_diabetes_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field in diabetes research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/diabetes/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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