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Sucrose preference test in stroke and brain ischemia research

From 2021 to 2025, 53 animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia mentioned the sucrose preference test in their title or abstract.

That is 4.1 times the 13 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.

53 papers on stroke and brain ischemia from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the sucrose preference test
4% of the papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention any test mention the sucrose preference test
3% of the papers that mention the sucrose preference test are on stroke and brain ischemia
4.1 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention the sucrose preference 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
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20071
20081
20092
20101
20111
20120
20134
20143
20155
20164
20173
20186
20199
20209
20219
20226
202313
202411
202514
2026 (part year)12

Papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention the sucrose preference test fell from 9 in 2021 to 6 in 2022, then rose to 14 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 53 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
40 papers 75%
Mouse
15 papers 28%
Other animals
1 paper 2%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the sucrose preference test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 53 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 6 (11%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

29 papers 55%
25 papers 47%
7 papers 13%
7 papers 13%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the sucrose preference test 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 sucrose preference 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.

The page on the sucrose preference test 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). Sucrose preference test in stroke and brain ischemia research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke/sucrose-preference-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_stroke_sucrose_preference_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Sucrose preference test in stroke and brain ischemia research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke/sucrose-preference-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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