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Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - A.ADAM - 07-12-2025
Hello everyone,
I have been working intensively on the Voynich Manuscript for a long time, and I believe and I’m totally sure that I have finally reached a clear and consistent decipherment of the text — including identifying the author and clarifying several related aspects. Now I can read any word in the Manuscript with full understanding of the meaning.
I fully understand that many similar claims have been made over the years, and I am not asking anyone to accept my conclusions at face value. Instead, I am looking for guidance from members who have more experience than I do in preparing and presenting scholarly work.
My main difficulty is that I have no prior experience publishing academic papers or formal research. Therefore, I am searching for advice — or collaboration — to help me transform my findings into a properly structured academic work that can be submitted to recognized platforms, journals, or preprint servers.
A very important point for me is ensuring that my intellectual contribution is protected and properly attributed. I want to share my work openly, but I also want to make sure that it cannot be claimed by anyone else.
If anyone here can provide a clear and transparent roadmap for:
- how to prepare my research for academic presentation,
- where to publish it safely,
- and how to document priority or authorship,
I am open to serious contact and collaboration with anyone willing to guide me through this process in a constructive and ethical way.
Thank you all for your time, and I welcome any suggestions or messages from those who can help.
A.Adam
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - rikforto - 07-12-2025
Posting your work here under your name would establish priority as clearly as anything, but so would any blog or any other place. Anyone who substantially reproduces what you've done after that would not have priority regardless of the independence of their work.
Publishing academically is a different, only somewhat overlapping question which you can also find help doing here, though I am not the person to ask for the finer details of that process.
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - Rafal - 07-12-2025
Publish under your name to Academia.edu
It's not and ideal website and you will find some critique on the web about it but your article will be there, it won't disappear and the date when you submitted it will be indicating that you were the first with that peculiar idea.
Of course, if you really, really worry about someone stealing your solution then you may contact lawyers specialising in copyright law but it will COST you
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - JoJo_Jost - 08-12-2025
In fact, you are in very good hands in a forum like this one, where renowned experts are active on a daily basis. If you publish a serious and convincing theory in such a forum and someone steals your idea and pretends it is theirs, these experts and certainly some others here would quickly point out that it has been stolen.
However, even if you publish your idea on other sites, someone may steal it. That would not be the first time in the history of science.
But what do you hope to gain from it? Fame and glory? Let's assume you solved the puzzle. What would happen? The news would spread around the world, and after a few weeks, it would be as old as all other news... Sure, you could write books about it, but it's hardly possible to make “a lot” of money that way. Because once the mystery is solved, interest in it will dry up faster than water in the Sahara. Who would still be interested in it?
And after a few years, you would still be the sad person who tells everyone you meet that you have deciphered the Voynich mystery. People who neither know what it is nor have any interest in it.
Fame is a very bitter pill to swallow when it evaporates like morning mist.
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - MarcoP - 08-12-2025
Hi,
your post looks like AI generated content. My 2 cents:
- If your research is AI generated text, it has no value at all.
- If you haven't read previous research in the field, your research is also worthless.
- If you have read previous formally-published research (e g. the Malta conference papers, or Voynich papers published on Cryptologia) you have good examples of how to write.
A recent excellent example of clearly presented research is the Naibbe cipher by Michael Greshko aka Magnesium:
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RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - A.ADAM - 08-12-2025
(08-12-2025, 08:21 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi,
your post looks like AI generated content. My 2 cents:
- If your research is AI generated text, it has no value at all.
- If you haven't read previous research in the field, your research is also worthless.
- If you have read previous formally-published research (e g. the Malta conference papers, or Voynich papers published on Cryptologia) you have good examples of how to write.
A recent excellent example of clearly presented research is the Naibbe cipher by Michael Greshko aka Magnesium:
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Thank you for your reply
I would like to clarify that my research has nothing to do with AI or any technological tools; it is entirely manual. At this stage, AI is not capable of solving this kind of work.
However, I will eventually need someone with IT expertise to help me save time in processing the entire manuscript, as completing it manually is extremely time-consuming.
I have read some of the published research on the subject—though not all of it—and it soon became clear that there was no real benefit in reviewing everything. My findings are fundamentally different from those of previous researchers, and my approach takes an entirely different direction. Perhaps it will be published one day, and then you will see exactly what I mean.
I welcome any advice that may help me share and present my findings appropriately and in a way that respects the points I have outlined
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - MarcoP - 08-12-2025
You don't need IT support for publication. There is no need to process the entire manuscript: previous solutions failed because of quality, not quantity.
Among the formally-published sources you read, can you please mention a couple of your favorites?
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - A.ADAM - 08-12-2025
(08-12-2025, 11:00 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You don't need IT support for publication. There is no need to process the entire manuscript: previous solutions failed because of quality, not quantity.
Among the sources you read, can you please mention a couple of your favorites?
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the truth, no one contributed to my arriving at the solution. My readings only gave me an appreciation for the elegance of the human mind and its ability to explore countless possibilities.
I didn't encounter any methodology that helped direct me toward the correct path
because my theory was different
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - rikforto - 08-12-2025
Two things here! First, you can still answer the question, which had nothing to do with your solution. Second, it should still contrast with what came before
RE: Seeking Guidance on How to Publish My Recent and Complete Research on the Voynich - A.ADAM - 08-12-2025
(08-12-2025, 11:33 AM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Two things here! First, you can still answer the question, which had nothing to do with your solution. Second, it should still contrast with what came before
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I don't mind answering
as example:
The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript
And
Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison
Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript