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Forced swim test with ovariectomy

From 2021 to 2025, 57 animal research papers mentioned ovariectomy and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.

That is about the same as the 58 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention ovariectomy and any of the 90 tests we count stayed about the same. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.

57 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned ovariectomy and the forced swim test
18% of the 309 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention ovariectomy 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 ovariectomy
About the same number of papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention ovariectomy 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
20011
20023
20033
20045
20055
20069
20075
20085
200913
20109
201111
201211
201312
201414
201510
201614
20179
201815
201914
202015
202116
20226
20238
202417
202510
2026 (part year)6

Papers that mention ovariectomy and the forced swim test fell from 16 in 2021 to 6 in 2022, then rose to 10 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 57 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
37 papers 65%
Mouse
21 papers 37%

Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 57 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 12 (21%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

19 papers 33%
13 papers 23%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%
1 paper 2%

Which papers count

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

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_ovariectomy_forced_swim_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Forced swim test with ovariectomy},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/ovariectomy/forced-swim-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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