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Open field in schizophrenia and psychosis research

From 2021 to 2025, 63 animal research papers on schizophrenia and psychosis mentioned the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 2.3 times the 27 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on schizophrenia and psychosis that mention any of the 90 tests we count fell 9%.

63 papers on schizophrenia and psychosis from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the open field
16% of the papers on schizophrenia and psychosis that mention any test mention the open field
2% of the papers that mention the open field are on schizophrenia and psychosis
2.3 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on schizophrenia and psychosis 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
20011
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20070
20084
20093
20103
20114
20126
20133
20144
201510
20162
20179
20189
20199
20208
202112
202212
202311
202412
202516
2026 (part year)17

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 63 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
38 papers 60%
Rat
26 papers 41%

Tests mentioned alongside the open field

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 63 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 4 (6%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the open field in its title or abstract, and studies schizophrenia and psychosis.

We tell whether a paper studies schizophrenia and psychosis 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 schizophrenia and psychosis research names the subject headings we count as schizophrenia and psychosis. 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 schizophrenia and psychosis research ranks the tests by their papers on schizophrenia and psychosis.

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_schizophrenia_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field in schizophrenia and psychosis research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/schizophrenia/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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