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Sucrose preference test with chronic unpredictable stress

From 2021 to 2025, 570 animal research papers mentioned chronic unpredictable stress and the sucrose preference test in their title or abstract.

That is 2.9 times the 196 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention chronic unpredictable stress and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 2.1 times as many.

570 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned chronic unpredictable stress and the sucrose preference test
59% of the 973 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention chronic unpredictable stress and a test mention the sucrose preference test
37% of the 1,522 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the sucrose preference test also mention chronic unpredictable stress
2.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention chronic unpredictable stress and the sucrose preference 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
20012
20021
20030
20043
20052
20062
20076
200810
200914
201013
201117
201216
201344
201459
201560
201655
201778
201880
2019100
2020108
2021108
2022119
2023101
2024100
2025142
2026 (part year)120

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 570 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
298 papers 52%
Mouse
283 papers 50%
Other animals
6 papers 1%
Zebrafish
1 paper under 1%
Fruit fly
1 paper under 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the sucrose preference test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 570 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 69 (12%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

349 papers 61%
261 papers 46%
207 papers 36%
84 papers 15%
54 papers 9%
9 papers 2%
8 papers 1%
8 papers 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions chronic unpredictable stress and the sucrose preference 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.

The page on the sucrose preference test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on chronic unpredictable stress ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Sucrose preference test with chronic unpredictable stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/chronic-unpredictable-stress/sucrose-preference-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_chronic_unpredictable_stress_sucrose_preference_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Sucrose preference test with chronic unpredictable stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/chronic-unpredictable-stress/sucrose-preference-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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