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May 24, 2017 at 21:13 comment added The Quantum Physicist @Faheem That's close enough. The whole nature family is quite demanding and not easy to get into.
May 24, 2017 at 21:06 comment added Faheem Mitha The poster said "nature family journal". Is that the same as Nature?
May 24, 2017 at 10:28 comment added The Quantum Physicist @Faheem too optimistic is a good description to what I said. But a professor failing such a student will definitely get bad reputation for it, unless it's the only time he does it. The guy published nature papers! That's kind of a big deal!! What kind of professor fails a nature publishing PhD? That would be very peculiar and will not help the supervisor in any way.
May 24, 2017 at 10:12 comment added Faheem Mitha I doubt it would "harm them a lot", but I also agree that the supervisor has little reason (assuming basic sanity) to fail her student, and it's certainly not in her interest to do so. And I think "would even have to answer to a higher authority on that if they fail you" is unreasonably optimistic wrt how academia works. Insofar as there is a "higher authority" goes, they won't care.
May 24, 2017 at 7:21 history answered The Quantum Physicist CC BY-SA 3.0