Research data ยท Motor function and endurance
Grip strength
From 2021 to 2025, 1,354 animal research papers mentioned grip strength in their title or abstract, ranking it 13th of the 90 tests we track.
That is 2.9 times the 459 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 grip strength, 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 | 17 |
| 2002 | 16 |
| 2003 | 27 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 49 |
| 2010 | 61 |
| 2011 | 64 |
| 2012 | 92 |
| 2013 | 93 |
| 2014 | 106 |
| 2015 | 104 |
| 2016 | 109 |
| 2017 | 133 |
| 2018 | 154 |
| 2019 | 178 |
| 2020 | 192 |
| 2021 | 219 |
| 2022 | 251 |
| 2023 | 240 |
| 2024 | 254 |
| 2025 | 390 |
| 2026 (part year) | 403 |
Papers that mention grip strength, by species, 2001 to 2025
- Mouse
- Rat
Show the counts for each year and species
| Year | Mouse | Rat |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | 7 |
| 2002 | 10 | 6 |
| 2003 | 11 | 14 |
| 2004 | 14 | 16 |
| 2005 | 12 | 11 |
| 2006 | 20 | 6 |
| 2007 | 17 | 14 |
| 2008 | 23 | 16 |
| 2009 | 23 | 19 |
| 2010 | 33 | 28 |
| 2011 | 30 | 35 |
| 2012 | 55 | 38 |
| 2013 | 68 | 24 |
| 2014 | 66 | 38 |
| 2015 | 68 | 29 |
| 2016 | 71 | 40 |
| 2017 | 75 | 49 |
| 2018 | 105 | 47 |
| 2019 | 122 | 48 |
| 2020 | 131 | 54 |
| 2021 | 150 | 55 |
| 2022 | 171 | 70 |
| 2023 | 169 | 57 |
| 2024 | 184 | 65 |
| 2025 | 293 | 90 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 1,354 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
โOther animalsโ 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 1,080 of the 1,354 papers, so each bar is a share of those 1,080.
A paper indexed under two of these headings, such as knockout mice and a strain, counts under both.
Disease models in papers that mention grip strength
Each bar is one disease model, with how many of the 1,354 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention grip strength 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 grip strength
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 1,354 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention grip strength 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 grip strength in the test battery tool.
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention grip strength and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Environ Health Perspect, 2021. 262 citations.
Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice.
J Clin Invest, 2021. 230 citations.
Front Aging Neurosci, 2021. 160 citations.
Br J Pharmacol, 2021. 158 citations.
Irisin ameliorates age-associated sarcopenia and metabolic dysfunction.
J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 2023. 153 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 grip strength only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The count includes 14 reviews. For 274 of the 1,354 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
These motor function and endurance tests also have a page, with their papers from 2021 to 2025. Each test with 30 or more papers gets one.
- Treadmill running 2,091 papers
- Rotarod 1,844 papers
- Gait analysis 821 papers
- Beam walking 491 papers
- Negative geotaxis and climbing assays 305 papers
- Catalepsy bar test 244 papers
- Wire hang and inverted grid 206 papers
- Cylinder test 163 papers
- Pole test 161 papers
- Grid walking (foot fault) 155 papers
- Rotational behavior (rotometer) 110 papers
- Adhesive removal test 107 papers
- Ladder rung walking 104 papers
- Skilled reaching 95 papers
- Corner test 59 papers
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Grip strength in published research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/grip-strength
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_grip_strength_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Grip strength in published research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/grip-strength},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Apparatus for grip strength
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We keep our own list of published papers whose text names our equipment. Those that mention grip strength in the title or abstract are already in the counts above.
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