CAUP has an acumulated total of 718 published papers in international refereed publications, being a significant part of these papers published in publications with a high impact factor in the "Space Science" area. The indicated impact values are taken from the 2011 edition of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012):
| Publication | Impact factor | Published papers |
| 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 |
| Astrophysics and Space Science | 1.69 | 55 |
| New Astronomy Reviews | 1.32 | 5 |
| Advances in Space Research | 1.18 | 8 |
| Astronomische Nachrichten | 1.01 | 17 |
| Others | - | 32 |
