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Novel object recognition in Alzheimer disease research

From 2021 to 2025, 568 animal research papers on Alzheimer disease mentioned novel object recognition in their title or abstract.

That is 4.9 times the 117 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on Alzheimer disease that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 2.8 times as many.

568 papers on Alzheimer disease from 2021 to 2025 mentioned novel object recognition
23% of the papers on Alzheimer disease that mention any test mention novel object recognition
19% of the papers that mention novel object recognition are on Alzheimer disease
4.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on Alzheimer disease that mention novel object recognition, 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
20011
20023
20030
20042
20052
20063
20075
20085
20098
20105
20117
201217
201329
201431
201533
201627
201741
201844
201973
2020102
202183
2022108
202398
2024134
2025145
2026 (part year)139

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 568 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
408 papers 72%
Rat
166 papers 29%
Other animals
4 papers 1%
Zebrafish
3 papers 1%
Nonhuman primate
1 paper under 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside novel object recognition

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 568 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 103 (18%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

277 papers 49%
153 papers 27%
72 papers 13%
60 papers 11%
41 papers 7%
19 papers 3%
19 papers 3%
19 papers 3%
12 papers 2%
11 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions novel object recognition in its title or abstract, and studies Alzheimer disease.

We tell whether a paper studies Alzheimer disease from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on Alzheimer disease research names the subject headings we count as Alzheimer disease. Download the test list for the search terms we used for novel object recognition, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

The page on novel object recognition counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on Alzheimer disease research ranks the tests by their papers on Alzheimer disease.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Novel object recognition in Alzheimer disease research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/novel-object-recognition

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_alzheimers_disease_novel_object_recognition_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Novel object recognition in Alzheimer disease research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/novel-object-recognition},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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