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Sucrose preference test with restraint stress

From 2021 to 2025, 101 animal research papers mentioned restraint stress and the sucrose preference test in their title or abstract.

That is 4.0 times the 25 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.

101 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned restraint stress and the sucrose preference test
18% of the 553 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention restraint stress and a test mention the sucrose preference test
7% of the 1,522 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the sucrose preference test also mention restraint stress
4.0 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention restraint stress and the sucrose preference 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
20010
20020
20030
20041
20050
20060
20071
20081
20092
20100
20114
20124
20136
20144
20157
20166
20177
201817
201915
202012
202114
202223
202322
202414
202528
2026 (part year)35

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 101 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
61 papers 60%
Rat
43 papers 43%

Tests mentioned alongside the sucrose preference test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 101 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 17 (17%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

62 papers 61%
36 papers 36%
15 papers 15%
2 papers 2%
2 papers 2%
Elevated T-maze
1 paper 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions restraint stress and the sucrose preference 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 sucrose preference 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). Sucrose preference test with restraint stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/sucrose-preference-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_restraint_stress_sucrose_preference_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Sucrose preference test with restraint stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/sucrose-preference-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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