> If the paper is too specialized for something general like Nature, then they probably shouldn't publish it. FYI, this is a well-known polite euphemism. Pape

> If the paper is too specialized for something general like Nature, then they probably shouldn't publish it. FYI, this is a well-known polite euphemism. Papers aren't put in Nature because they avoid being too specialized. (Try reading a Nature paper today, and compare with a paper in a specialized journal a few decades ago.) They are put in Nature because they seem super impressive, and so even people outside the subfield might care. Saying "this paper is more appropriate for a specialized journal" just means "this paper isn't impressive/important enough for people to care, so we're not going to publish it in Nature, the highest-status journal".