Uncertainties in estimates of the risks of late effects from space radiation

Physics & Astronomy

• extraterrestrial radiation 100%
• estimates 44%
• projection 20%
• Galactic cosmic rays 15%
• shielding 11%
• risk management 11%
• Committee on Space Research 11%
• Mars missions 10%
• radiobiology 9%
• confidence limits 8%
• physical factors 8%
• space exploration 8%
• deep space 8%
• optimization 8%
• low Earth orbits 7%
• space missions 7%
• heavy ions 5%
• masks 5%
• sampling 5%
• methodology 5%
• protons 4%
• products 4%
• causes 3%
• radiation 3%
• configurations 3%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Radiation 60%
• Uncertainty 48%
• Cosmic rays 19%
• Shielding 13%
• Heavy ions 9%
• Protons 7%
• Risk management 6%
• Probability distributions 6%
• Masks 6%
• Orbits 5%
• Earth (planet) 5%
• Sampling 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• radiation 54%
• effect 17%
• cosmic ray 16%
• risk reduction 7%
• risk management 6%
• Mars 6%
• distribution 5%
• method 4%
• ion 4%
• methodology 4%
• sampling 3%
• project 3%
• particle 3%
• product 3%
• material 2%