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Morris water maze with scopolamine

From 2021 to 2025, 223 animal research papers mentioned scopolamine and the Morris water maze in their title or abstract.

That is 1.5 times the 144 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention scopolamine and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.2 times as many.

223 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned scopolamine and the Morris water maze
46% of the 483 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention scopolamine and a test mention the Morris water maze
4% of the 5,392 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the Morris water maze also mention scopolamine
1.5 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention scopolamine and the Morris water maze, 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
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Papers by year
YearPapers
20019
200219
200313
200412
200514
200615
200723
200817
200926
201026
201123
201232
201332
201426
201531
201646
201738
201840
201943
202036
202143
202238
202338
202448
202556
2026 (part year)43

Papers that mention scopolamine and the Morris water maze fell from 43 in 2021 to 38 in 2022, then rose to 56 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 223 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
126 papers 57%
Rat
104 papers 47%
Other animals
1 paper under 1%

“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.

Tests mentioned alongside the Morris water maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 223 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 78 (35%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

63 papers 28%
62 papers 28%
19 papers 9%
14 papers 6%
4 papers 2%
2 papers 1%
2 papers 1%
2 papers 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions scopolamine and the Morris water maze.

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 Morris water maze counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on scopolamine ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Morris water maze with scopolamine [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/morris-water-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_scopolamine_morris_water_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Morris water maze with scopolamine},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/morris-water-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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