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Fiber photometry
From 2021 to 2025, 177 animal research papers mentioned fiber photometry and at least one behavioral test.
There were 0 such papers in 2011 to 2015. We compare the two periods only when each has 10 or more papers.
The tests mentioned with fiber photometry
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 177 papers from 2021 to 2025 mention it, and what share that is. A paper that mentions two tests counts under both.
The 15 tests these papers mention most
All 49 tests these papers mention
| Test | Papers | Share of the 177 papers |
|---|---|---|
| Elevated plus maze | 23 | 13% |
| Operant conditioning | 20 | 11% |
| Conditioned place preference | 19 | 11% |
| Open field | 18 | 10% |
| Self-administration | 18 | 10% |
| Fear conditioning | 15 | 8% |
| Forced swim test | 9 | 5% |
| Tail suspension test | 8 | 5% |
| Von Frey test | 8 | 5% |
| Light-dark box | 7 | 4% |
| Social interaction test | 7 | 4% |
| Novel object recognition | 7 | 4% |
| Predator odor exposure | 6 | 3% |
| Looming stimulus | 6 | 3% |
| Three-chamber sociability test | 5 | 3% |
| Sucrose preference test | 5 | 3% |
| Active avoidance (shuttle box) | 4 | 2% |
| Object location test | 4 | 2% |
| Morris water maze | 4 | 2% |
| Learned helplessness | 3 | 2% |
| Elevated zero maze | 3 | 2% |
| Social approach and avoidance | 3 | 2% |
| T-maze | 3 | 2% |
| Y-maze | 3 | 2% |
| Treadmill running | 3 | 2% |
| Novelty-suppressed feeding | 3 | 2% |
| Tube test for social dominance | 3 | 2% |
| Self-grooming | 3 | 2% |
| Olfactory tests | 3 | 2% |
| Rotational behavior (rotometer) | 3 | 2% |
| Five-choice serial reaction time task | 2 | 1% |
| Marble burying | 2 | 1% |
| Rotarod | 2 | 1% |
| Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle | 2 | 1% |
| Hot plate | 2 | 1% |
| Passive avoidance | 2 | 1% |
| Real-time place preference | 2 | 1% |
| Wheel running | 2 | 1% |
| Nest building | 1 | 1% |
| Resident-intruder test | 1 | 1% |
| Formalin test | 1 | 1% |
| Hole-board | 1 | 1% |
| Skilled reaching | 1 | 1% |
| Splash test | 1 | 1% |
| Gait analysis | 1 | 1% |
| Barnes maze | 1 | 1% |
| Hargreaves plantar test | 1 | 1% |
| Touchscreen operant tasks | 1 | 1% |
| Cold plate | 1 | 1% |
To count the papers that mention two or more tests together, use the test battery tool.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention fiber photometry and a behavioral test, 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 33 |
| 2024 | 33 |
| 2025 | 69 |
| 2026 (part year) | 73 |
Disease models in papers that mention fiber photometry
Each bar is one disease model, with how many of the 177 papers from 2021 to 2025 are tagged with it, and what share that is. The model comes from the paper's MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. A paper without MeSH terms gets its model from PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, if PubTator 3 finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one model.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 by disease model
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 177 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.
NIH funding
60 of the 177 papers (34%) had NIH funding. NIDA funded the most, 27 of them. A paper counts as NIH-funded when its PubMed record lists an NIH grant, or when NIH RePORTER links it to an NIH project.
NIH-funded papers by institute
Each share is of the NIH-funded papers. A paper with grants from two institutes counts under both.
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention fiber photometry and a behavioral test and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Mol Psychiatry, 2021. 81 citations.
Nat Commun, 2022. 77 citations.
A thalamo-amygdalar circuit underlying the extinction of remote fear memories.
Nat Neurosci, 2021. 74 citations.
Nat Commun, 2021. 74 citations.
CNS Neurosci Ther, 2023. 48 citations.
How we counted
A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions fiber photometry and at least one of the 90 behavioral tests. A count is a number of papers, not of experiments, labs or animals. A paper that mentions fiber photometry only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.
A paper is animal research when its MeSH terms name an animal species. If they name none, NCBI's text-mining service PubTator 3 has to find one in the title or abstract. Papers on animals other than mice, rats, zebrafish, flies and primates count only when they also mention a test. Many of them study people or use the same words for something else.
The search terms for fiber photometry are in the download Animal models and brain techniques. The counts in the chart of tests are in Tests mentioned with each model or technique. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
More brain techniques
Each brain technique with 100 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention a test has a page. These are the others, each with that count.
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- AAV vectors 546 papers
- Chemogenetics (DREADDs) 505 papers
- Optogenetics 443 papers
- In vivo electrophysiology 335 papers
- Intranasal delivery 299 papers
- EEG and ECoG 265 papers
- Intrathecal injection 257 papers
- Transcranial stimulation 152 papers
- Microdialysis 133 papers
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Behavioral tests with fiber photometry [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/brain-techniques/fiber-photometry
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_fiber_photometry_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Behavioral tests with fiber photometry},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/brain-techniques/fiber-photometry},
note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
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