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Open field in stroke and brain ischemia research

From 2021 to 2025, 159 animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia mentioned the open field in their title or abstract.

That is 2.9 times the 54 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.5 times as many.

159 papers on stroke and brain ischemia from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the open field
12% of the papers on stroke and brain ischemia that mention any test mention the open field
4% of the papers that mention the open field are on stroke and brain ischemia
2.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on stroke and brain ischemia 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
20012
20020
20032
20045
20052
20067
20076
20087
20098
20107
20116
20127
201313
20149
201519
201623
201719
201813
201917
202024
202123
202224
202327
202438
202547
2026 (part year)38

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 159 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
95 papers 60%
Mouse
69 papers 43%
Other animals
2 papers 1%

“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 159 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 33 (21%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

35 papers 22%
21 papers 13%
20 papers 13%
19 papers 12%
16 papers 10%
8 papers 5%
8 papers 5%
6 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 stroke and brain ischemia.

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

How to cite

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_stroke_open_field_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Open field in stroke and brain ischemia research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/stroke/open-field},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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