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Rotarod in stroke and brain ischemia research

From 2021 to 2025, 245 animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia mentioned the rotarod in their title or abstract.

That is 1.6 times the 150 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.5 times as many.

245 papers on stroke and brain ischemia from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the rotarod
19% of the papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention any test mention the rotarod
13% of the papers that mention the rotarod are on stroke and brain ischemia
1.6 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention the rotarod, 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
20014
20026
20038
200410
200510
200610
200711
200819
200914
201025
201126
201225
201332
201429
201538
201641
201746
201837
201933
202055
202140
202237
202352
202452
202564
2026 (part year)55

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 245 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
131 papers 53%
Mouse
122 papers 50%
Other animals
3 papers 1%
Zebrafish
2 papers 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the rotarod

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 245 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 85 (35%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

56 papers 23%
19 papers 8%
19 papers 8%
15 papers 6%
13 papers 5%
12 papers 5%
10 papers 4%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the rotarod in its title or abstract, and studies stroke and brain ischemia.

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

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Rotarod in stroke and brain ischemia research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke/rotarod

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_stroke_rotarod_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Rotarod in stroke and brain ischemia research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke/rotarod},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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