Retraction Note: Forecasting major impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on country-driven sectors: challenges, lessons, and future roadmap(Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, (2021), 27, (807–830), 10.1007/s00779-021-01530-7)

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Manoj Kumar and Thompson Stephan disagree with this retraction. Mufti Mahmud has not explicitly stated whether they agree or disagree with the retraction. Rajkumar Viral and Vikas Deep have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Saket Kumar and Purushottam Sharma.