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Passive avoidance in Alzheimer disease research

From 2021 to 2025, 262 animal research papers on Alzheimer disease mentioned passive avoidance in their title or abstract.

That is 2.0 times the 132 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 faster, to 2.8 times as many.

262 papers on Alzheimer disease from 2021 to 2025 mentioned passive avoidance
11% of the papers on Alzheimer disease that mention any test mention passive avoidance
23% of the papers that mention passive avoidance are on Alzheimer disease
2.0 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on Alzheimer disease that mention passive avoidance, 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
20019
20029
20034
20044
20057
20068
200711
20087
200910
201022
201115
201222
201327
201427
201541
201640
201731
201827
201938
202043
202157
202259
202352
202443
202551
2026 (part year)38

Papers on Alzheimer disease that mention passive avoidance fell from 57 in 2021 to 43 in 2024, then rose to 51 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. Where PubMed has indexed a paper, we take its disease models from that indexing. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted here. 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 262 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
140 papers 53%
Mouse
124 papers 47%
Zebrafish
3 papers 1%
Other animals
2 papers 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside passive avoidance

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 262 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 53 (20%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

125 papers 48%
55 papers 21%
28 papers 11%
15 papers 6%
6 papers 2%
5 papers 2%
5 papers 2%
5 papers 2%
5 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions passive avoidance 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 passive avoidance, 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 passive avoidance 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). Passive avoidance in Alzheimer disease research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/passive-avoidance

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_alzheimers_disease_passive_avoidance_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Passive avoidance in Alzheimer disease research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/alzheimers-disease/passive-avoidance},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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