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Conditioned place preference in substance use disorders research

From 2021 to 2025, 403 animal research papers on substance use disorders mentioned conditioned place preference in their title or abstract.

That is 11% fewer than the 454 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on substance use disorders that mention any of the 90 tests we count fell 12%. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.

403 papers on substance use disorders from 2021 to 2025 mentioned conditioned place preference
25% of the papers on substance use disorders that mention any test mention conditioned place preference
37% of the papers that mention conditioned place preference are on substance use disorders
11% fewer papers than in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on substance use disorders that mention conditioned place preference, 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
200123
200232
200343
200426
200547
200666
200747
200873
200963
201055
201180
201291
201399
2014111
201573
2016100
201793
2018108
201988
2020105
2021106
202273
202354
202480
202590
2026 (part year)68

Papers on substance use disorders that mention conditioned place preference fell from 106 in 2021 to 54 in 2023, then rose to 90 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 403 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
233 papers 58%
Rat
178 papers 44%
Other animals
16 papers 4%
Zebrafish
5 papers 1%
Nonhuman primate
1 paper under 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside conditioned place preference

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 403 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 267 (66%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

71 papers 18%
22 papers 5%
18 papers 4%
8 papers 2%
7 papers 2%
7 papers 2%
4 papers 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions conditioned place preference in its title or abstract, and studies substance use disorders.

We tell whether a paper studies substance use disorders 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 substance use disorders research names the subject headings we count as substance use disorders. Download the test list for the search terms we used for conditioned place preference, 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 conditioned place preference

The page on conditioned place preference counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on substance use disorders research ranks the tests by their papers on substance use disorders.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Conditioned place preference in substance use disorders research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/substance-use/conditioned-place-preference

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_substance_use_conditioned_place_preference_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Conditioned place preference in substance use disorders research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/substance-use/conditioned-place-preference},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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