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Morris water maze in substance use disorders research

From 2021 to 2025, 36 animal research papers on substance use disorders mentioned the Morris water maze in their title or abstract.

That is 1.2 times the 30 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%.

36 papers on substance use disorders from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the Morris water maze
2% of the papers on substance use disorders that mention any test mention the Morris water maze
1% of the papers that mention the Morris water maze are on substance use disorders
1.2 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on substance use disorders that mention the Morris water maze, 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
20013
20023
20033
20042
20053
20062
20073
20087
20093
20102
20116
20124
20137
20145
20158
201612
20177
20188
20193
20207
20216
20226
20239
20246
20259
2026 (part year)2

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 36 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
19 papers 53%
Mouse
16 papers 44%
Other animals
1 paper 3%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the Morris water maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 36 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 11 (31%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

6 papers 17%
6 papers 17%
4 papers 11%
3 papers 8%
2 papers 6%
2 papers 6%
2 papers 6%
1 paper 3%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the Morris water maze 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 the Morris water maze, 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 Morris water maze 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). Morris water maze in substance use disorders research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/substance-use/morris-water-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_substance_use_morris_water_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Morris water maze in substance use disorders research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/substance-use/morris-water-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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