The proliferation of scholarly publications underscores the necessity for reliable tools to navigate scientific literature. OpenAlex, an emerging platform amalgamating data from diverse academic sources, holds promise in meeting these evolving demands. Nonetheless, our investigation uncovered a flaw in OpenAlex's portrayal of publication status, particularly concerning retractions. Despite accurate metadata sourced from Crossref database, OpenAlex consolidated this information into a single boolean field, "is_retracted," leading to misclassifications of papers. This challenge not only impacts OpenAlex users but also extends to users of other academic resources integrating the OpenAlex API. The issue affects data provided by OpenAlex in the period between 22 Dec 2023 and 19 Mar 2024. Anyone using data from this period should urgently check it and replace it if necessary.

翻译：学术文献的持续增长凸显了可靠工具在导航科学文献中的必要性。OpenAlex作为融合多源学术数据的新兴平台，有望满足这些不断发展的需求。然而，我们的调查发现OpenAlex在出版物状态描述方面存在缺陷，尤其在撤销标记方面。尽管从Crossref数据库获取了准确的元数据，但OpenAlex将这些信息整合为单一布尔字段"is_retracted"，导致论文分类错误。这一问题不仅影响OpenAlex用户，还会波及整合OpenAlex API的其他学术资源用户。该问题涉及2023年12月22日至2024年3月19日期间OpenAlex提供的数据。任何使用此期间数据的用户应立即核查并在必要时替换相关数据。