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| Title |
Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0066344 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette |
| Abstract |
The Voynich manuscript has remained so far as a mystery for linguists and cryptologists. While the text written on medieval parchment -using an unknown script system- shows basic statistical patterns that bear resemblance to those from real languages, there are features that suggested to some researches that the manuscript was a forgery intended as a hoax. Here we analyse the long-range structure of the manuscript using methods from information theory. We show that the Voynich manuscript presents a complex organization in the distribution of words that is compatible with those found in real language sequences. We are also able to extract some of the most significant semantic word-networks in the text. These results together with some previously known statistical features of the Voynich manuscript, give support to the presence of a genuine message inside the book. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 134 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 9% |
| Germany | 7 | 5% |
| Japan | 5 | 4% |
| Argentina | 3 | 2% |
| Spain | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| Italy | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 16 | 12% |
| Unknown | 64 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 104 | 78% |
| Scientists | 20 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 94 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 5 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Russia | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Belarus | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 82% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Professor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 22% |
| Unknown | 9 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | 19 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 15% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 12 | 13% |
| Linguistics | 7 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 23 | 24% |
| Unknown | 13 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 349. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2022.
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#1,544
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#546
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