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Novel object recognition
From 2021 to 2025, 3,019 animal research papers mentioned novel object recognition in their title or abstract, ranking it third of the 90 tests we track.
That is 2.3 times the 1,293 papers of 2011 to 2015. Papers that mention any of the 90 tests grew to 1.2 times as many over the same span.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention novel object recognition, 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 23 |
| 2002 | 33 |
| 2003 | 37 |
| 2004 | 41 |
| 2005 | 56 |
| 2006 | 67 |
| 2007 | 94 |
| 2008 | 125 |
| 2009 | 137 |
| 2010 | 149 |
| 2011 | 184 |
| 2012 | 228 |
| 2013 | 280 |
| 2014 | 265 |
| 2015 | 336 |
| 2016 | 330 |
| 2017 | 373 |
| 2018 | 432 |
| 2019 | 447 |
| 2020 | 520 |
| 2021 | 534 |
| 2022 | 559 |
| 2023 | 532 |
| 2024 | 628 |
| 2025 | 766 |
| 2026 (part year) | 770 |
Papers that mention novel object recognition in mice and in rats, by year, 2001 to 2025
- Mouse
- Rat
Show the counts for each year and species
| Year | Mouse | Rat |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | 12 |
| 2002 | 14 | 19 |
| 2003 | 14 | 19 |
| 2004 | 16 | 24 |
| 2005 | 15 | 36 |
| 2006 | 22 | 39 |
| 2007 | 32 | 62 |
| 2008 | 62 | 61 |
| 2009 | 71 | 64 |
| 2010 | 65 | 90 |
| 2011 | 90 | 102 |
| 2012 | 125 | 101 |
| 2013 | 154 | 130 |
| 2014 | 141 | 117 |
| 2015 | 169 | 160 |
| 2016 | 164 | 159 |
| 2017 | 209 | 158 |
| 2018 | 225 | 191 |
| 2019 | 256 | 186 |
| 2020 | 278 | 230 |
| 2021 | 292 | 224 |
| 2022 | 306 | 232 |
| 2023 | 301 | 212 |
| 2024 | 347 | 265 |
| 2025 | 468 | 270 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 3,019 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the other species in this chart.
Strains and genetic lines
Strain names come from the MeSH terms PubMed adds when it indexes a paper. PubMed has indexed 2,416 of the 3,019 papers, so each bar is a share of those 2,416.
A paper indexed under two of these headings, such as knockout mice and a strain, counts under both.
Disease models these papers study
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention novel object recognition and study that disease model, with its share of the 3,019 papers. The model comes from a paper's MeSH terms. For a paper PubMed has not indexed, it comes from PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, when that service finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one model.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 by disease model
Tests mentioned alongside novel object recognition
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests, with its share of the 3,019 papers that mention novel object recognition.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention novel object recognition and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Edaravone ameliorates depressive and anxiety-like behaviors via Sirt1/Nrf2/HO-1/Gpx4 pathway.
J Neuroinflammation, 2022. 467 citations.
J Neuroinflammation, 2022. 271 citations.
Rutin prevents tau pathology and neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
J Neuroinflammation, 2021. 207 citations.
Autophagy, 2023. 187 citations.
Geroscience, 2021. 166 citations.
How we counted
A count is the number of animal research papers whose title or abstract mentions one of the test's search terms. It is not a count of experiments, labs or animals.
A paper that mentions novel object recognition only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 26 reviews. For 606 of the 3,019 papers, PubMed's indexing gave no species, so the species came from PubTator 3 finding one in the title or abstract.
The test's search terms are in the test list download. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Novel object recognition in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/novel-object-recognition
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_novel_object_recognition_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Novel object recognition in published research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/novel-object-recognition},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Apparatus for novel object recognition
Our store sells three products for novel object recognition.
Shop the apparatusPapers that name our apparatus
We keep our own list of published papers whose text names our equipment. Those that mention novel object recognition in the title or abstract are already in the counts above.
- 1 paper from 2021 names our Novel Object Recognition. See the papers
