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Forced swim test with LPS

From 2021 to 2025, 200 animal research papers mentioned LPS and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.

That is 3.4 times the 59 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention LPS and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 2.8 times as many.

200 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned LPS and the forced swim test
23% of the 876 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention LPS and a test mention the forced swim test
7% of the 2,988 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the forced swim test also mention LPS
3.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention LPS 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
20012
20021
20030
20041
20053
20063
20071
20082
20093
20108
20117
20127
20139
201418
201518
201625
201725
201831
201940
202047
202139
202242
202337
202441
202541
2026 (part year)45

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 200 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
164 papers 82%
Rat
39 papers 20%
Zebrafish
1 paper 1%

Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 200 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 38 (19%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

60 papers 30%
25 papers 13%
8 papers 4%
6 papers 3%
6 papers 3%
3 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions LPS 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 LPS ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_lps_forced_swim_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Forced swim test with LPS},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/lps/forced-swim-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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