Publisher's Note: "Criticality in transient behavior of coupled oscillator system toward chimera and synchronization" [Chaos 33, 073131 (2023)].

2023-JC-YB-071, 2022JQ-010), Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (Program No. 22JP053), Shaanxi Fundamental Science Research Project for Mathematics and Physics (Grant No. 22JSQ037), NSFC of China (Grant No. 41975040), and the Taishan Industrial Experts Program. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2021ZD0201300, the Project Supported by Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program Nos. This article was originally published online on 17 July 2023 with an error in the Acknowledgment section. [Extracted from the article]