RETRACTED ARTICLE: E-learning adoption of academicians: a proposal for an extended model

We, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Behaviour & Information Technology, have retracted the following article:Naciye Güliz Uğur & Aykut Hamit Turan (2018) E-learning adoption of academicians: a proposal for an extended model, Behaviour & Information Technology, 37:4, 393-405, DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2018.1437219Since publication, concerns were raised about the similarity of this article to an article published in SIGSAND/PLAIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing:Wrycza S., Kuciapski M. (2018) Determinants of Academic E-Learning Systems Acceptance. In: Wrycza S., Maślankowski J. (eds) Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education. SIGSAND/PLAIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00060-8_6We initiated an investigation into the article published in Behaviour & Information Technology and when approached for an explanation, the authors were unable to provide their original data to verify its authenticity. Therefore, the authors have agreed to the retraction of the article.We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.