Paper short abstract:

We have a limit to know the reluctance of the persons in charge of the private universities to open their universities to us because they will think of a control of their offers of formations and to dismiss them from their lucrative activities.

Paper long abstract:

Scientific research is a field that makes it possible to produce scientific knowledge in a domain and to provide answers to the concerns of current and future society.

In the Handbook of Academic Integrity, editor Tracey Bretag (2016) observed, “Academic integrity is such a multifarious topic that authors around the globe report differing historical developments which have led to a variety of interpretations of it as a concept and a broad range of approaches to promulgating it in their own environments” (p. 3)

Scientific integrity is defined as "the set of rules and values that must govern research activity in order to guarantee its honest and scientifically rigorous nature". An essential condition for maintaining the trust society places in research actors.

Scientific integrity is the set of values and rules that guarantee irreproachable research activity. It is a prerequisite for trust between research groups and between science and society.

Research activity, particularly in the social sciences, refers to the acquisition of documentary knowledge, its operationalisation in the field through data collection techniques, their analysis and interpretation and their formalization. In a document with scientific content in order to understand and explain a social fact in a well-defined area of investigation and explain a social fact in a well-defined area of investigation.

The question we asked ourselves was why is research integrity not in the training curricula of Masters and PhD students in the public universities of Côte d'Ivoire?(Issue)