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Von Frey test with CFA

From 2021 to 2025, 90 animal research papers mentioned CFA and the von Frey test in their title or abstract.

That is 1.8 times the 49 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention CFA and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.5 times as many.

90 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned CFA and the von Frey test
42% of the 216 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention CFA and a test mention the von Frey test
7% of the 1,282 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the von Frey test also mention CFA
1.8 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention CFA and the von Frey 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
20021
20031
20043
20052
20064
20074
20085
20096
20108
201112
20128
201311
201410
20158
201611
201713
201818
201925
202024
202117
202216
202313
202424
202520
2026 (part year)17

Papers that mention CFA and the von Frey test fell from 17 in 2021 to 13 in 2023, then rose to 20 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. We take a paper's species from PubMed's indexing when the indexing names one. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find a species in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted. 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 90 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
57 papers 63%
Rat
35 papers 39%
Other animals
1 paper 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the von Frey test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 90 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 43 (48%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

13 papers 14%
5 papers 6%
5 papers 6%
4 papers 4%
2 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions CFA and the von Frey test.

A paper that mentions either only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The search terms are in the list of models and techniques and the test list. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.

More pairings

Every pairing of an animal model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

Other tests with CFA

The page on the von Frey test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on CFA ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Von Frey test with CFA [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/cfa/von-frey

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_cfa_von_frey_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Von Frey test with CFA},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/cfa/von-frey},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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