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Forced swim test with environmental enrichment

From 2021 to 2025, 30 animal research papers mentioned environmental enrichment and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.

That is about the same as the 29 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention environmental enrichment and any of the 90 tests we count stayed about the same.

30 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned environmental enrichment and the forced swim test
10% of the 295 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention environmental enrichment and a test mention the forced swim test
1% of the 2,988 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the forced swim test also mention environmental enrichment
About the same number of papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention environmental enrichment and the forced swim 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
20063
20074
20083
20094
20104
20116
20125
20132
20146
201510
20163
20173
20187
20195
20205
20219
20227
20237
20243
20254
2026 (part year)3

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 30 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
18 papers 60%
Mouse
11 papers 37%
Other animals
1 paper 3%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 30 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 1 (3%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

12 papers 40%
10 papers 33%
5 papers 17%
2 papers 7%
2 papers 7%
2 papers 7%
1 paper 3%
1 paper 3%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions environmental enrichment and the forced swim 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 forced swim test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on environmental enrichment ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Forced swim test with environmental enrichment [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/environmental-enrichment/forced-swim-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_environmental_enrichment_forced_swim_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Forced swim test with environmental enrichment},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/environmental-enrichment/forced-swim-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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