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Tail suspension test with restraint stress

From 2021 to 2025, 98 animal research papers mentioned restraint stress and the tail suspension test in their title or abstract.

That is 5.4 times the 18 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.

98 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned restraint stress and the tail suspension test
18% of the 553 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention restraint stress and a test mention the tail suspension test
7% of the 1,405 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the tail suspension test also mention restraint stress
5.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention restraint stress and the tail suspension 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
20040
20050
20060
20071
20084
20090
20104
20115
20121
20135
20144
20153
20167
20178
201813
201918
202011
202110
202218
202317
202419
202534
2026 (part year)31

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 98 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
90 papers 92%
Rat
9 papers 9%

Tests mentioned alongside the tail suspension test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 98 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 7 (7%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

67 papers 68%
37 papers 38%
21 papers 21%
8 papers 8%
8 papers 8%
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 tail suspension 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 tail suspension 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). Tail suspension test with restraint stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/tail-suspension-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_restraint_stress_tail_suspension_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Tail suspension test with restraint stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/restraint-stress/tail-suspension-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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