well, this link will direct you to just under 300 scholarly articles on Lehmer's polynomial:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=polynomial+lehmer&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0%2C5&cites=18047953845360790641&scipsc=1

(oh, and I added the big-list tag to this question, I guess that is appropriate :)

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a small selection:

 - <A HREF="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~hironaka/papers/pretzel.pdf</A>The
   Lehmer polynomial and pretzel links</A>
   
 - <A HREF="http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2031711">On the
   distribution of the roots of a polynomial with integral
   coefficients</A>
   
 - <A HREF="http://www.ams.org/journals/proc/2005-133-05/S0002-9939-04-07753-6/">Lehmer's
   problem for compact Abelian groups</A>
   
 - <A HREF="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11139-010-9278-6#page-1">Higher
   Mahler measure for cyclotomic polynomials and Lehmer's question</A>
   
 - <A HREF="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.1734">Lehmer's Conjecture for
   Hermitian Matrices over the Eisenstein and Gaussian Integers</A>
   
 - <A HREF="http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/bcp/bcp34/bcp34112.pdf">Solved
   and unsolved problems on polynomials</A>