O CAUP tem um total acumulado de 1134 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 2012 do Journal Citation Reports' Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012):
| Publicação | Factor de impacto | Artigos publicados |
| Nature | 38.60 | 7 |
| Science | 31.03 | 3 |
| Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26.45 | 1 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 16.24 | 12 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9.74 | 1 |
| The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | 9.50 | 1 |
| Physical Review Letters | 7.94 | 5 |
| The Astrophysical Journal | 6.73 | 84 |
| The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 6.34 | 26 |
| Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 6.04 | 10 |
| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 5.52 | 200 |
| The European Physical Journal C | 5.44 | 2 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 5.08 | 492 |
| Astroparticle Physics | 4.78 | 1 |
| Physical Review D | 4.69 | 97 |
| Physics Letters B | 4.57 | 18 |
| The Astronomical Journal | 4.57 | 13 |
| Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 4.37 | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 3.98 | 1 |
| Physical Review B | 3.77 | 2 |
| Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 3.69 | 6 |
| Optics Express | 3.55 | 1 |
| Solar Physics | 3.26 | 3 |
| Optics Letters | 3.18 | 1 |
| Classical and Quantum Gravity | 3.10 | 1 |
| Experimental Astronomy | 2.97 | 4 |
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A | 2.89 | 1 |
| Astrobiology | 2.80 | 2 |
| Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | 2.32 | 1 |
| Physical Review E | 2.31 | 3 |
| Astrophysics and Space Science | 2.06 | 56 |
| New Astronomy | 1.85 | 1 |
| New Astronomy Reviews | 1.82 | 5 |
| Applied Optics | 1.78 | 1 |
| Physics Letters A | 1.77 | 1 |
| General Relativity and Gravitation | 1.73 | 1 |
| Journal of the Optical Society of America A | 1.67 | 2 |
| International Journal of Astrobiology | 1.45 | 1 |
| Astronomische Nachrichten | 1.40 | 20 |
| Advances in Space Research | 1.18 | 9 |
| Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres | 1.14 | 1 |
| International Journal of Modern Physics D | 1.03 | 2 |
| Outras | - | 34 |
