The Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Cristiana Sebu, and all the Editorial Board are happy to announce that Volume 11 of the official Science Journal of the Malta Chamber of Scientists, Xjenza Online, has been just published and is currently available as open access. 

Xjenza Online is a peer-reviewed, free open access international journal. The journal encompasses research articles, original research reports, reviews, short communications and scientific commentaries in all fields of science.

The journal not only provides a dedicated forum for publishing high-quality research articles in all areas of science in the Maltese Islands but also serves as the main launching and training platform into scientific publishing for a wide scope of potential authors, including students and young researchers, in a peer-reviewed environment.

This volume features exciting research about:

• the use of biosensors for monitoring of parameters and diagnosis of vital functional during first medical emergency, 
• people’s negative perceptions towards the COVID-19 vaccination, 
• the sociology of house names in Malta, the ranking of different rural localities according to evidenced agricultural activities, 
• the incidence of immature high grade teratomas in young women, 
• the geographical characteristics of the Sliema peninsula, 
• the assessment of C-reactive protein blood sampling practices in neonates, 
• the serum prolactin monitoring in patients taking atypical antipsychotics at the Mount Carmel Hospital or an intense episode of seismic activity which took place 23 km south of Malta in September–November 2020. 

The full volume and individual articles can be downloaded online.