Journal of Function Spaces would like to express concern with the article titled “On A New Faster Implicit Fixed Point Iterative Scheme in Convex Metric Spaces” [1]. There was a conflict of interest because the authors and handling editor had previously published together. Another member of the editorial board reassessed the article and raised the following issue:
To my best knowledge, the results of the article are new. The article is of an average level; the only fact I observed is the following one:
The authors use definitions 5 and 6 from Berinde, [2] for comparing the speed of convergence of two sequences which are observed to be inconsistent according to Popescu et al., [3].
Hence, the result (Theorem 13) concerning the speed of convergence for different iterative schemes, which is based on the definition given in Berinde, is not relevant.