The Tapping Evidence Base
For researchers

Build on this — with us.

The Tapping Evidence Base is meant to be used, not just read. The full dataset is openly downloadable, and our real-world app data is available for qualified academic study. If you research tapping, here's how to start.

Take the data

The complete, structured database — every study, every field — free to download and reuse. Start your next review from our file instead of rebuilding it.

Study our real-world data

The Tapping Solution app has recorded more than 18 million before-and-after tapping sessions — one of the largest real-world datasets in digital mental wellness. We make anonymized, aggregated outcome data available to qualified researchers under a data-use agreement. This is a rare chance to study a behavioral technique at a scale controlled trials can't reach.

What we can share. Anonymized, aggregated pre/post distress ratings by session type and condition, engagement and retention patterns, and longitudinal use — structured for research, governed by a data-use agreement and appropriate ethical review.

Where the field needs work

Being honest about the gaps is part of the job — and it doubles as a research agenda. These are the areas most in need of strong new studies:

  • Athletic Performance — only 9 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Cancer & Serious Illness — only 18 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Burnout & Work Stress — only 18 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Sleep & Insomnia — only 18 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Pain — only 23 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Weight & Food Cravings — only 24 studies so far; ripe for a well-powered trial.
  • Head-to-head trials — more tapping-vs-CBT and tapping-vs-medication comparisons.
  • Long-term follow-up — durability of effects beyond a few months.
  • Active controls — "sham tapping" designs that isolate the acupoint component.

Researching one of these? We'd love to help — with data access, our literature database, and collaboration.

Contact

For data-access requests, collaboration, corrections, or independent methodology review, email contact@thetappingsolution.com. If you're reporting an error in a specific record, include the study and what's wrong, and it will be logged on the corrections page.