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Open field in obesity and high-fat diet research

From 2021 to 2025, 75 animal research papers on obesity and high-fat diet mentioned the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 3.6 times the 21 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 2.1 times as many.

75 papers on obesity and high-fat diet from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the open field
10% of the papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention any test mention the open field
2% of the papers that mention the open field are on obesity and high-fat diet
3.6 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on obesity and high-fat diet that mention 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
20010
20020
20031
20041
20050
20060
20070
20081
20091
20100
20111
20124
20134
20145
20157
201610
201714
201811
201910
202017
202111
202210
202323
202416
202515
2026 (part year)10

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 75 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
46 papers 61%
Rat
27 papers 36%
Other animals
2 papers 3%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the open field

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 75 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 24 (32%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

23 papers 31%
15 papers 20%
12 papers 16%
7 papers 9%
4 papers 5%
4 papers 5%
3 papers 4%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the open field in its title or abstract, and studies obesity and high-fat diet.

We tell whether a paper studies obesity and high-fat diet 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 obesity and high-fat diet research names the subject headings we count as obesity and high-fat diet. Download the test list for the search terms we used for the open field, 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 the open field counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on obesity and high-fat diet research ranks the tests by their papers on obesity and high-fat diet.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Open field in obesity and high-fat diet research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/obesity/open-field

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_obesity_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field in obesity and high-fat diet research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/obesity/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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