The Tapping Evidence Base
Explore the evidence

The whole field, at a glance.

407 studies and reviews of Tapping, visualised — how the research grew, which conditions are best studied, how far around the world it reaches, and how strong the effects actually are.

A field that grew up

Published Tapping research by year. What started as a handful of case reports in the 1990s is now a steady stream of randomized trials from around the world.

Which conditions are best studied

Every bubble is a condition. Farther right = more studies; higher = larger typical effect; bigger bubble = more people studied. Anxiety, PTSD and depression anchor the field.

A global evidence base

Tapping has been studied in 41 countries across 8 languages. Of the studies here with a known country of origin, 66% were run outside the United States, including a deep vein of Indonesian, Korean, Turkish, Iranian and Chinese research that English-only directories miss entirely.

How strong are the effects?

Distribution of the head-to-head effect sizes reported across 30 studies. In this field an effect of 0.8 is considered large — and most Tapping studies land at or above it. (Implausibly large outliers, above 3.0, are excluded here, as they are across the site.)

Effect size = Cohen's d / Hedges' g, tapping vs. a comparison group. 0.2 small · 0.5 moderate · 0.8+ large. This chart is a hand-curated subset: the 30 studies that report a comparable between-group effect size, extracted from the papers — not an automatic count of the full directory.