Research data · Anxiety-like behavior
Novel tank test
From 2021 to 2025, 245 animal research papers mentioned the novel tank test in their title or abstract, ranking it 37th of the 90 tests we track.
That is 5.3 times the 46 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 the novel tank 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 23 |
| 2019 | 44 |
| 2020 | 47 |
| 2021 | 45 |
| 2022 | 48 |
| 2023 | 39 |
| 2024 | 36 |
| 2025 | 77 |
| 2026 (part year) | 68 |
Papers that mention the novel tank test fell from 45 in 2021 to 36 in 2024, then rose to 77 in 2025. Papers that PubMed indexed under the MeSH heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025. We take each paper's species from PubMed's indexing whenever it names one, so part of this dip may come from the indexing rather than from fewer studies.
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
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the other species in this chart.
Disease models these papers study
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the novel tank test and study that disease model, with its share of the 245 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 the novel tank test
Each bar counts the papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests, with its share of the 245 papers that mention the novel tank test.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention the novel tank test and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Psychopharmacology (Berl), 2022. 82 citations.
Examining behavioural test sensitivity and locomotor proxies of anxiety-like behaviour in zebrafish.
Sci Rep, 2023. 59 citations.
AlCl3 induced learning and memory deficit in zebrafish.
Neurotoxicology, 2022. 52 citations.
Sci Rep, 2021. 51 citations.
Effects of oxybenzone on zebrafish behavior and cognition.
Sci Total Environ, 2022. 48 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 the novel tank test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 7 reviews. For 49 of the 245 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.
More anxiety-like behavior tests
These anxiety-like behavior tests also have a page, with their papers from 2021 to 2025. Each test with 30 or more papers gets one.
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Novel tank test in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/novel-tank-test
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_novel_tank_test_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Novel tank test in published research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/novel-tank-test},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}