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Open field with exercise
From 2021 to 2025, 106 animal research papers mentioned exercise and the open field in their title or abstract.
That is 2.6 times the 40 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention exercise and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.9 times as many.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention exercise and the open field, 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 31 |
| 2025 | 25 |
| 2026 (part year) | 32 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 106 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.
Tests mentioned alongside the open field
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 106 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 21 (20%) mention no other test.
The 12 tests these papers mention most
Which papers count
A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions exercise and the open field.
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 exercise
- Grip strength 187 papers
- Morris water maze 153 papers
- Forced swim test 122 papers
- Rotarod 109 papers
- Elevated plus maze 83 papers
- Novel object recognition 81 papers
- Sucrose preference test 41 papers
- Passive avoidance 40 papers
- Gait analysis 36 papers
- Y-maze 36 papers
- Tail suspension test 33 papers
- Von Frey test 30 papers
The open field with other animal models and brain techniques
- Chronic unpredictable stress 382 papers
- Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) 188 papers
- Restraint stress 136 papers
- High-fat diet 97 papers
- Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection 84 papers
- MPTP 81 papers
- Maternal separation and early-life stress 72 papers
- AAV vectors 70 papers
- Sleep deprivation 70 papers
- Middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) 61 papers
- Social isolation 57 papers
- Chemogenetics (DREADDs) 56 papers
- EEG and ECoG 51 papers
- 6-OHDA 50 papers
- Social defeat stress 49 papers
- Streptozotocin diabetes 47 papers
- Pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) 43 papers
- Traumatic brain injury (CCI, fluid percussion, weight drop) 43 papers
- Spinal cord injury 42 papers
- Nerve injury 41 papers
- Rotenone 40 papers
- Sepsis 40 papers
- Intranasal delivery 37 papers
- Environmental enrichment 36 papers
- Ovariectomy 36 papers
- In vivo electrophysiology 33 papers
- MK-801 31 papers
- Optogenetics 31 papers
- Scopolamine 31 papers
- Reserpine 30 papers
The page on the open field counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on exercise ranks the tests mentioned with it.
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Open field with exercise [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/exercise/open-field
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_exercise_open_field_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Open field with exercise},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/exercise/open-field},
note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
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