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Grid walking (foot fault)
From 2021 to 2025, 155 animal research papers mentioned grid walking (foot fault) in their title or abstract, ranking it 47th of the 90 tests we track.
That is 1.4 times the 109 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, all the animal research papers that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.2 times as many.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention grid walking (foot fault), 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 3 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 36 |
| 2020 | 36 |
| 2021 | 34 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 30 |
| 2026 (part year) | 34 |
Papers that mention grid walking (foot fault) fell from 34 in 2021 to 25 in 2022, then rose to 30 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. When PubMed's indexing names a paper's species, we use it. 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.
Papers that mention grid walking (foot fault), by species, 2001 to 2025
- Mouse
- Rat
Show the counts for each year and species
| Year | Mouse | Rat |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 11 |
| 2007 | 1 | 8 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10 |
| 2009 | 1 | 12 |
| 2010 | 4 | 15 |
| 2011 | 7 | 12 |
| 2012 | 6 | 20 |
| 2013 | 7 | 14 |
| 2014 | 9 | 17 |
| 2015 | 3 | 17 |
| 2016 | 5 | 15 |
| 2017 | 9 | 19 |
| 2018 | 11 | 19 |
| 2019 | 15 | 22 |
| 2020 | 20 | 17 |
| 2021 | 17 | 18 |
| 2022 | 14 | 12 |
| 2023 | 18 | 19 |
| 2024 | 16 | 14 |
| 2025 | 20 | 12 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 155 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.
Strains and genetic lines
Strain names come from the MeSH terms PubMed adds when it indexes a paper. PubMed has indexed 124 of the 155 papers, so each bar is a share of those 124.
A paper indexed under two of these headings, such as knockout mice and a strain, counts under both.
Disease models in papers that mention grid walking (foot fault)
Each bar is one disease model, with how many of the 155 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention grid walking (foot fault) use it, and what share that is. The model comes from the paper's MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. A paper without MeSH terms gets its model from PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, if PubTator 3 finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one model.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 by disease model
Tests mentioned alongside grid walking (foot fault)
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 155 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention grid walking (foot fault) also mention it, and what share that is.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention both tests
To count the papers that mention three or more tests together, start from grid walking (foot fault) in the test battery tool.
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention grid walking (foot fault) and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
J Neuroinflammation, 2021. 105 citations.
J Ethnopharmacol, 2024. 78 citations.
CNS Neurosci Ther, 2022. 72 citations.
Stroke, 2022. 71 citations.
Pharm Biol, 2023. 69 citations.
How we counted
A count is the number of animal research papers whose title or abstract mentions one of the test's search terms. It is not a count of experiments, labs or animals.
A paper that mentions grid walking (foot fault) only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 3 reviews. For 31 of the 155 papers, PubMed's indexing gave no species, so the species came from PubTator 3 finding one in the title or abstract.
The test's search terms are in the test list download. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
More motor function and endurance tests
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How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Grid walking (foot fault) in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/grid-walking
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_grid_walking_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Grid walking (foot fault) in published research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/grid-walking},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Apparatus for grid walking (foot fault)
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