The UN General Assembly accepted the “Agenda 2030” UN resolu- tion in 2015. The document specified seventeen so-called Sustain- able Development Goals (SDGs) for countries to follow. It is widely accepted that Universities as scientific hubs should participate in facilitating the knowledge generation and implementation of the strategy. This study analyzed the prevalence of the “Sustainable cities and communities” (SDG-11) goal in academic publications from 2017 to 2021 in Europe, focusing on V4 countries. We ana- lyzed the number of research papers and their impact based on the SciVal and the World Economic Forum’s Times Higher Education (THE) university impact ranking databases. Luxembourg leads the ranking of European countries in SDG-11 publications per capita, while less-developed countries tend to be at the bottom of the line. For the V4 countries, not the lower interest in SDG-11 is the main problem, but the weaker interest in SDG-related research in general. Also, there is little overlap between the sub-topics in V4 countries which can hinder possible synergies. To celebrate the few existing sub-topic overlaps between V4 institutions, we introduced a “con- nection map” that may facilitate stronger collaborations amongst V4 universities.