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Open field with spinal cord injury

From 2021 to 2025, 42 animal research papers mentioned spinal cord injury and the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 14% fewer than the 49 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention spinal cord injury and any of the 90 tests we count rose 25%. The 2021 to 2025 count may run low because of a dip in PubMed's indexing, explained under the year chart.

42 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned spinal cord injury and the open field
11% of the 395 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention spinal cord injury and a test mention the open field
1% of the 3,980 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the open field also mention spinal cord injury
14% fewer papers than in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention spinal cord injury and the open field, 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
20025
20035
200413
200513
20066
20079
200811
200910
20109
20114
201210
201319
20149
20157
201611
20178
201813
20198
20206
202114
20225
20236
20245
202512
2026 (part year)7

Papers that mention spinal cord injury and the open field fell from 14 in 2021 to 5 in 2022, then rose to 12 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 42 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
27 papers 64%
Mouse
16 papers 38%

Tests mentioned alongside the open field

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 42 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 20 (48%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

6 papers 14%
4 papers 10%
2 papers 5%
2 papers 5%
2 papers 5%
1 paper 2%
1 paper 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions spinal cord injury and the open field.

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 open field counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on spinal cord injury ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Open field with spinal cord injury [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/spinal-cord-injury/open-field

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_spinal_cord_injury_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field with spinal cord injury},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/spinal-cord-injury/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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