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The article aimed to assess the influence of mobile games, social networks, and religious attitudes on teenagers' tendencies toward cybercrime during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 7, 2026

Retraction notice: Cybercrime's tendencies of the teenagers in the COVID-19 era: assessing the influence of mobile games, social networks and religious attitudes

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The article aimed to assess the influence of mobile games, social networks, and religious attitudes on teenagers' tendencies toward cybercrime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article was written to evaluate trends and influences on cybercrime.
Investigated the impact of mobile games and social networks on behaviors.
Considered religious attitudes in relation to cybercrime tendencies.
Article is retracted due to significant plagiarism from previously submitted works.
No new findings or data were presented as the article was deemed not original.

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The publishers of Kybernetes wish to retract the article “Cybercrime's tendencies of the teenagers in the COVID-19 era: assessing the influence of mobile games, social networks and religious attitudes” by Y. Li, J. Li, Q. Fan and Z. Wang https://doi.org/10.1108/K-07-2021-0582, which appeared ahead of print. It has come to our attention that large portions of this article are taken, without attribution, from previously submitted articles by other authors. The Kybernetes submission guidelines make it clear that articles must be original. The publishers of the journal sincerely apologize to the readers.

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Retraction notice: Cybercrime's tendencies of the teenagers in the COVID-19 era: assessing the influence of mobile games, social networks and religious attitudes

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