Research data · Animal model and test

Passive avoidance with scopolamine

From 2021 to 2025, 136 animal research papers mentioned scopolamine and passive avoidance in their title or abstract.

That is 16% fewer than the 162 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention scopolamine and any of the 90 tests we count rose 24%. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.

136 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned scopolamine and passive avoidance
28% of the 483 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention scopolamine and a test mention passive avoidance
12% of the 1,142 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention passive avoidance also mention scopolamine
16% fewer papers than in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention scopolamine and passive avoidance, 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
200124
200220
200323
200420
200515
200629
200726
200819
200932
201025
201125
201235
201333
201429
201540
201634
201743
201836
201926
202030
202128
202229
202331
202423
202525
2026 (part year)21

Papers that mention scopolamine and passive avoidance fell from 28 in 2021 to 23 in 2024, then rose to 25 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
83 papers 61%
Rat
54 papers 40%
Zebrafish
3 papers 2%
Other animals
2 papers 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside passive avoidance

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 136 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 33 (24%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

63 papers 46%
34 papers 25%
10 papers 7%
6 papers 4%
5 papers 4%
2 papers 1%
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 passive avoidance.

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 passive avoidance 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). Passive avoidance with scopolamine [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/passive-avoidance

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_scopolamine_passive_avoidance_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Passive avoidance with scopolamine},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/passive-avoidance},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

Passive avoidance apparatus in our store

In the test battery tool, pick every test your study will run and add the apparatus we sell for them to one quote.