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Forced swim test with a high-fat diet

From 2021 to 2025, 47 animal research papers mentioned a high-fat diet and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.

That is 2.1 times the 22 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention a high-fat diet and any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 2.7 times as many.

47 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned a high-fat diet and the forced swim test
5% of the 868 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention a high-fat diet and a test mention the forced swim test
2% of the 2,988 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the forced swim test also mention a high-fat diet
2.1 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention a high-fat diet 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
20031
20040
20050
20061
20070
20081
20090
20102
20114
20121
20133
20145
20159
20168
201710
20188
20198
202013
20218
20227
20238
202412
202512
2026 (part year)9

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 47 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
27 papers 57%
Mouse
20 papers 43%

Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 47 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 11 (23%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

20 papers 43%
10 papers 21%
8 papers 17%
3 papers 6%
3 papers 6%
2 papers 4%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions a high-fat diet 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 a high-fat diet ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_high_fat_diet_forced_swim_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Forced swim test with a high-fat diet},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/high-fat-diet/forced-swim-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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