Yearly pageviews of English Wikipedia articles with potential links to green open access scholarly articles

Number of visits in 2019 for a sample of 23462 English Wikipedia articles which contain references to academic sources which have a green open access copy available but not yet used. The consultation statistics were retrieved from the Wikimedia pageviews API using the Python client (script also included). The sample was selected among articles which in April 2020 had at least one citation of an academic paper (using the "cite journal" template) for which OAbot (through Unpaywall data) had found a green open access URL to add (gratis open access, not necessarily libre open access). Data shows that the top 1 % most visited articles received 30 % of the visits: over 500 million in the year, corresponding to 1 million potential citation link clicks to distribute across all references assuming a 0.2 % click-through rate per Piccardi et al. (2020).