CAUP has an acumulated total of 1134 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 2012 edition of the Journal Citation Reports' Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012):
| Publication | Impact factor | Published papers |
| 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 |
| Astrophysics and Space Science | 2.06 | 56 |
| New Astronomy Reviews | 1.82 | 5 |
| Astronomische Nachrichten | 1.40 | 20 |
| Advances in Space Research | 1.18 | 9 |
| Acta Astronautica | 0.82 | 6 |
| Others | - | 51 |
