[blots]

> By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place.

Being published in Nature gives you bonus points when it comes to funding. Which I don't quite understand, cause Nature is like the last journal where I'd look for newest information on my subject.

[pav3l]

Publication in Nature is not so much for newest information on your specific and somewhat narrow subject, but for more or less breakthroughs of various degrees.

From guidelines[1]:

- report original scientific research (the main results and conclusions must not have been published or submitted elsewhere)

- are of outstanding scientific importance

- reach a conclusion of interest to an interdisciplinary readership.

[1]http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/get_published/#a1