Recently I'm carefully checking all the spam emails I receive on my institutional email account. I found a lot of apparently respected scientists (yes, you people) working as editors for predatory (garbage, pay-per-publish) journals. Every time I double check their official CV, sometimes I send them an email too. "Luckily", 70% of the time they were added without consent. But still, the other 30% of the time they are just using the "editor" position to inflate their CV.
This pratice has to stop. When you have proof that a scientist is "working" for a predatory journal (be careful: not just a low impact factor journal, I'm speaking about not-peer-reviewed or general malpractice) send an email to their institution. Probably nothing will happen, but we need to start cleaning our community before it's too late.
Most of the times researchers are added or listed as editors of those journals without their knowledge. It is an annoyance
@Daniel, I'm well aware of that. But still often (about 30% of the time) find it listed in their official CV. Just yesterday I found two Italian doctors and professors that listed about 10 predatory journals editorial board positions each.
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