OICC Press Mathematical Analysis and its Contemporary Applications 4 2 2022 03 21 Some critical remarks of recent results on F-contractions in b-metric spaces 10.30495/maca.2022.1948245.1043 EN Mudasir Younis Department of Applied Mathematics, Jammu Kashmir Institute of Mathematical Sciences (An Institute of Higher Excellence), Srinagar-190008, Jammu and Kashmir, India Nicola Fabiano Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovića Alasa 12-14, 11351 Belgrade, Serbia Mirjana Pantovic University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Radoja Domanovica 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia Stojan Radenovic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Kraljice Marije 16, 11120 Belgrade, Serbia Journal Article 2022 03 21 In this paper, we analyze, generalize and correct some recent results on F-contractions within b-metric spaces. In all results, our only assumption is the strict growth of the function F:(0,+∞)→(−∞,+∞).