R. A. Day has restated the definition given by the Council of Biology Editors (CBE) into three main points:
A) the first publication of original research results,
B) in a form where peers of the author can repeat the experiments and test the conclusions, and
C) in a journal or other source document readily available within the scientific community.
Some caveats are that there is prepublication peer review and that scientific papers are published in peer-reviewed publications.
Reminds me of the assignment Prof. Sodhi made us to in Behavioural Biology class where we acted both as review scientists and peer reviewers!
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