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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JSG</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">JMIR Serious Games</journal-id>
      <journal-title>JMIR Serious Games</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2291-9279</issn>
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        <publisher-loc>Toronto, Canada</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">v14i1e110891</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">42727067</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/110891</article-id>
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          <subject>Retraction</subject>
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          <subject>Retraction</subject>
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        <article-title>Retraction: Implementations of Virtual Reality for Anxiety-Related Disorders: Systematic Review</article-title>
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          <collab>JMIR Publications Editorial Office</collab>
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            <institution>JMIR Publications</institution>
            <addr-line>130 Queens Quay East, Suite 1100-1102</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Toronto, ON</addr-line>
            <phone>1 4165832040</phone>
            <email>ed-support@jmir.org</email>
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        <addr-line>Toronto, ON</addr-line>
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        <corresp>Corresponding Author:  JMIR Publications Editorial Office <email>ed-support@jmir.org</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2026</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>11</day>
        <month>9</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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      <volume>14</volume>
      <elocation-id>e110891</elocation-id>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>8</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>8</day>
          <month>9</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
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      <copyright-statement>©JMIR Publications Editorial Office. Originally published in JMIR Serious Games (https://games.jmir.org), 11.09.2026.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
      <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Serious Games, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://games.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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      <related-article related-article-type="retracted-article" id="v6i4e10965" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/10965" vol="6" page="e10965" xlink:type="simple" xlink:title="Retraction of:">https://games.jmir.org/2018/4/e10965/</related-article>
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    <p>The JMIR Publications Editorial Office is retracting the article “Implementations of Virtual Reality for Anxiety-Related Disorders: Systematic Review” [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] due to concerns regarding the integrity of the peer review process.</p>
    <p>Author Julie Prescott responded but did not specifically agree or disagree with the decision to retract the article. Author Theodore Oing did not respond to communications.</p>
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        <label>1</label>
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              <surname>Oing</surname>
              <given-names>Theodore</given-names>
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            <name name-style="western">
              <surname>Prescott</surname>
              <given-names>Julie</given-names>
            </name>
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          <article-title>Implementations of virtual reality for anxiety-related disorders: systematic review</article-title>
          <source>JMIR Serious Games</source>
          <year>2018</year>
          <month>11</month>
          <day>07</day>
          <volume>6</volume>
          <issue>4</issue>
          <fpage>e10965</fpage>
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          <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/10965</pub-id>
          <pub-id pub-id-type="medline">30404770</pub-id>
          <pub-id pub-id-type="pii">v6i4e10965</pub-id>
          <pub-id pub-id-type="pmcid">PMC6249506</pub-id>
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