Towards a definition of the scientific paper?

In science, the document has never been defined, much less analyzed, including upheavals trained its transition to electronic and web 2.0. It is this analysis that offers head to this article based on the RTP DOC theory that defines the document as both medium container and contents. In our proposal, seen as a medium, the scientific paper is defined as the message vector among scientists. It is designed as a competition object that requires recognition of peer competitors. Seen as containing, it is a stable logical and physical structure, regardless of the subject area and built in parts and sub-parts in order to direct his presentation. Finally, as content, we define the scientific paper published as written, validated by experts, which describes the original search results.