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Elevated plus maze with single prolonged stress

From 2021 to 2025, 63 animal research papers mentioned single prolonged stress and the elevated plus maze in their title or abstract.

That is 3.7 times the 17 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention single prolonged stress and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 3.5 times as many.

63 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned single prolonged stress and the elevated plus maze
44% of the 142 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention single prolonged stress and a test mention the elevated plus maze
2% of the 2,883 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the elevated plus maze also mention single prolonged stress
3.7 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention single prolonged stress and the elevated plus 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
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20061
20070
20080
20091
20102
20110
20120
20133
20148
20156
20166
20179
20187
201914
20209
202110
202211
202314
202411
202517
2026 (part year)20

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 63 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
43 papers 68%
Mouse
20 papers 32%

Tests mentioned alongside the elevated plus maze

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 63 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 16 (25%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

19 papers 30%
18 papers 29%
14 papers 22%
4 papers 6%
3 papers 5%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions single prolonged stress and the elevated plus 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.

Other tests with single prolonged stress

The page on the elevated plus maze counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on single prolonged stress ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Elevated plus maze with single prolonged stress [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/single-prolonged-stress/elevated-plus-maze

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_single_prolonged_stress_elevated_plus_maze_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Elevated plus maze with single prolonged stress},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/single-prolonged-stress/elevated-plus-maze},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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