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Morris water maze with D-galactose

From 2021 to 2025, 157 animal research papers mentioned D-galactose and the Morris water maze in their title or abstract.

That is 2.7 times the 58 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention D-galactose and any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 3.4 times as many.

157 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned D-galactose and the Morris water maze
64% of the 244 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention D-galactose and a test mention the Morris water maze
3% of the 5,392 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the Morris water maze also mention D-galactose
2.7 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention D-galactose and the Morris water maze, 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
20011
20021
20031
20041
20052
20066
20074
20085
20096
20109
201113
20127
20138
201415
201515
201620
201719
201822
201918
202029
202129
202232
202330
202425
202541
2026 (part year)43

Papers that mention D-galactose and the Morris water maze fell from 29 in 2021 to 25 in 2024, then rose to 41 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 157 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
85 papers 54%
Rat
79 papers 50%

Tests mentioned alongside the Morris water maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 157 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 97 (62%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

16 papers 10%
12 papers 8%
2 papers 1%
2 papers 1%
2 papers 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions D-galactose and the Morris water maze.

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 Morris water maze counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on D-galactose ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Morris water maze with D-galactose [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/d-galactose/morris-water-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_d_galactose_morris_water_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Morris water maze with D-galactose},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/d-galactose/morris-water-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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