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Tail suspension test with chronic unpredictable stress

From 2021 to 2025, 303 animal research papers mentioned chronic unpredictable stress and the tail suspension test in their title or abstract.

That is 3.8 times the 80 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.

303 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned chronic unpredictable stress and the tail suspension test
31% of the 973 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention chronic unpredictable stress and a test mention the tail suspension test
22% of the 1,405 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the tail suspension test also mention chronic unpredictable stress
3.8 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention chronic unpredictable stress and the tail suspension 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
20020
20030
20041
20050
20060
20071
20087
20094
20105
20115
201214
201316
201427
201518
201626
201737
201837
201949
202050
202148
202264
202362
202450
202579
2026 (part year)64

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 303 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
275 papers 91%
Rat
46 papers 15%
Other animals
3 papers 1%
Zebrafish
2 papers 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the tail suspension test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 303 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 7 (2%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

228 papers 75%
122 papers 40%
44 papers 15%
14 papers 5%
9 papers 3%
7 papers 2%
7 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions chronic unpredictable stress and the tail suspension 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 tail suspension 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). Tail suspension test with chronic unpredictable stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/chronic-unpredictable-stress/tail-suspension-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_chronic_unpredictable_stress_tail_suspension_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Tail suspension test with chronic unpredictable stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/chronic-unpredictable-stress/tail-suspension-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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