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Forced swim test with reserpine

From 2021 to 2025, 52 animal research papers mentioned reserpine and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.

That is 1.2 times the 44 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention reserpine and any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 1.3 times as many.

52 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned reserpine and the forced swim test
48% of the 109 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention reserpine 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 reserpine
1.2 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention reserpine 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
20015
20020
20032
20043
20052
20065
20076
20083
20091
20104
20117
201211
20139
201410
20157
201613
20176
20188
201912
202011
202111
20229
20233
202413
202516
2026 (part year)11

Papers that mention reserpine and the forced swim test fell from 11 in 2021 to 3 in 2023, then rose to 16 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 52 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
33 papers 63%
Rat
24 papers 46%

Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 52 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 10 (19%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

13 papers 25%
7 papers 13%
7 papers 13%
7 papers 13%
6 papers 12%
4 papers 8%
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 reserpine 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.

Other tests with reserpine

The page on the forced swim test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on reserpine ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_reserpine_forced_swim_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Forced swim test with reserpine},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/reserpine/forced-swim-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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