O CAUP tem um total acumulado de 718 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 2011 do Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012):
| Publicação | Factor de impacto | Artigos publicados |
| Nature | 36.28 | 4 |
| Science | 31.20 | 3 |
| Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26.45 | 1 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 13.46 | 5 |
| The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | 11.53 | 1 |
| Physical Review Letters | 7.37 | 4 |
| The Astrophysical Journal | 6.02 | 50 |
| Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 5.72 | 3 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 5.53 | 20 |
| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 4.90 | 129 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 4.59 | 306 |
| Physical Review D | 4.56 | 51 |
| The Astronomical Journal | 4.04 | 4 |
| Physics Letters B | 3.96 | 13 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 3.79 | 1 |
| Physical review B | 3.69 | 1 |
| Optics Express | 3.59 | 1 |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 3.58 | 3 |
| Astroparticle Physics | 3.27 | 1 |
| Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 3.16 | 1 |
| Solar Physics | 2.78 | 3 |
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A | 2.77 | 1 |
| Physical Review E | 2.26 | 2 |
| Astrobiology | 2.15 | 1 |
| Experimental Astronomy | 1.82 | 1 |
| Astrophysics and Space Science | 1.69 | 55 |
| Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | 1.46 | 1 |
| New Astronomy | 1.41 | 1 |
| New Astronomy Reviews | 1.32 | 5 |
| International Journal of Modern Physics D | 1.18 | 1 |
| Advances in Space Research | 1.18 | 8 |
| Astronomische Nachrichten | 1.01 | 17 |
| Outras | - | 20 |
