FIGURE 1.
Research articles on the topic of excitotoxicity indexed in PubMed, by year 1975-present. The search was for articles indexed under a MeSH term of “acid, excitatory amino”, containing “excitotoxicity” OR “neurotoxicity” in any field. For shape comparison, the inset show total indexed papers over the same period with a peak in 2019 of 1.39 million papers.