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Forced swim test with restraint stress
From 2021 to 2025, 186 animal research papers mentioned restraint stress and the forced swim test in their title or abstract.
That is 1.6 times the 118 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention restraint stress and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.3 times as many.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention restraint stress 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 4 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 30 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2015 | 29 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 30 |
| 2018 | 41 |
| 2019 | 26 |
| 2020 | 33 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2022 | 37 |
| 2023 | 35 |
| 2024 | 36 |
| 2025 | 46 |
| 2026 (part year) | 46 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 186 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
Tests mentioned alongside the forced swim test
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 186 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 35 (19%) 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 restraint stress 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 restraint stress
The forced swim test with other animal models and brain techniques
- Chronic unpredictable stress 570 papers
- Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) 200 papers
- Exercise 122 papers
- Maternal separation and early-life stress 91 papers
- Social defeat stress 90 papers
- Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection 58 papers
- Ovariectomy 57 papers
- Chronic corticosterone 55 papers
- Social isolation 53 papers
- Reserpine 52 papers
- AAV vectors 50 papers
- High-fat diet 47 papers
- Intranasal delivery 46 papers
- Streptozotocin diabetes 42 papers
- Sleep deprivation 39 papers
- Environmental enrichment 30 papers
The page on the forced swim test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on restraint stress ranks the tests mentioned with it.
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Forced swim test with restraint stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/forced-swim-test
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_restraint_stress_forced_swim_test_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Forced swim test with restraint stress},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/forced-swim-test},
note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
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