Contractive conditions in b-metric spaces

The purpose of this paper is to consider various contractive conditions in b-metric spaces which have been recently published. Our results improve and complement many recent results from this field. Using the recently obtained result by R. Miculescu and A. Mihail (Miculescu & Mihail, 2017, pp.1-11) the authors of this article show that the proofs of the majority of known results in the context of b-metric spaces can be shortened.