O CAUP tem um total acumulado de 630 publicações em revistas internacionais com referee, sendo uma fracção significativa em revistas com elevado factor de impacto na área de "Ciências do Espaço". Os valores do impacto indicados são da edição de 2010 do Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2011):
| Publicação | Factor de impacto | Artigos publicados |
| Nature | 36.10 | 3 |
| Science | 31.36 | 3 |
| Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 27.44 | 1 |
| The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | 15.44 | 1 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 15.21 | 5 |
| Physical Review Letters | 7.62 | 4 |
| Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 6.50 | 2 |
| The Astrophysical Journal | 6.06 | 42 |
| Physics Letters B | 5.26 | 9 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 5.16 | 15 |
| Physical Review D | 4.96 | 41 |
| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 4.89 | 114 |
| The Astronomical Journal | 4.55 | 4 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 4.42 | 268 |
| Astroparticle Physics | 3.81 | 1 |
| Physical review B | 3.77 | 1 |
| Optics Express | 3.75 | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 3.51 | 1 |
| Solar Physics | 3.39 | 3 |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 3.34 | 3 |
| Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2.85 | 1 |
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A | 2.46 | 1 |
| Astrobiology | 2.37 | 1 |
| Experimental Astronomy | 2.14 | 1 |
| New Astronomy Reviews | 1.94 | 5 |
| Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | 1.72 | 1 |
| New Astronomy | 1.63 | 1 |
| Astrophysics and Space Science | 1.44 | 55 |
| International Journal of Modern Physics D | 1.11 | 1 |
| Advances in Space Research | 1.08 | 7 |
| Outras | - | 34 |
