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Open field with restraint stress

From 2021 to 2025, 136 animal research papers mentioned restraint stress and the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 2.9 times the 47 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.

136 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned restraint stress and the open field
25% of the 553 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention restraint stress and a test mention the open field
3% of the 3,980 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the open field also mention restraint stress
2.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention restraint stress and the open field, 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
20027
20033
20044
20054
20065
20074
20085
20097
201010
20114
20126
201311
20149
201517
201610
201715
201818
201922
202016
202124
202229
202320
202431
202532
2026 (part year)33

Papers that mention restraint stress and the open field fell from 24 in 2021 to 20 in 2023, then rose to 32 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 136 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
72 papers 53%
Rat
67 papers 49%

Tests mentioned alongside the open field

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 136 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 18 (13%) 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 open field.

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 open field 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). Open field with restraint stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/open-field

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_restraint_stress_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field with restraint stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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