Metric	Taste	Hearing	Vision	Hearing/Taste	Vision/Taste
PubMed	36,302	123,101	171,522	3.39	4.72
NIH Reporter	6,144	23,873	54,858	3.89	8.93
We conducted a text search of PubMed and NIH Reporter using a particular sense as a key word. PubMed is an online database of published experimental results and NIH Reporter is an online database that lists research projects funded through the National Institutes of Health. Values in the 'Hearing/Taste' column show a ratio, i.e., there are over three times as many publications referencing hearing compared with taste. We accessed the URLs below on January 31, 2018 at 10 am EST.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm