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Y-maze with scopolamine

From 2021 to 2025, 153 animal research papers mentioned scopolamine and the Y-maze in their title or abstract.

That is 2.4 times the 63 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.

153 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned scopolamine and the Y-maze
32% of the 483 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention scopolamine and a test mention the Y-maze
8% of the 1,988 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the Y-maze also mention scopolamine
2.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention scopolamine and the Y-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
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20014
20021
20035
20044
20053
20065
20074
20084
20098
20104
201115
201211
20139
201415
201513
201618
201722
201821
201928
202024
202128
202235
202322
202424
202544
2026 (part year)33

Papers that mention scopolamine and the Y-maze fell from 28 in 2021 to 22 in 2023, then rose to 44 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 153 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
84 papers 55%
Rat
49 papers 32%
Zebrafish
24 papers 16%
Other animals
3 papers 2%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the Y-maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 153 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 19 (12%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

62 papers 41%
34 papers 22%
21 papers 14%
9 papers 6%
6 papers 4%
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 Y-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 Y-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). Y-maze with scopolamine [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/y-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_scopolamine_y_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Y-maze with scopolamine},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/scopolamine/y-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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