well, this link will direct you to just under 300 scholarly articles on Lehmer's polynomial:
(oh, and I added the big-list tag to this question, I guess that is appropriate :)
a small selection:
<A HREF="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~hironaka/papers/pretzel.pdfThe Lehmer polynomial and pretzel links
On the distribution of the roots of a polynomial with integral coefficients
Higher Mahler measure for cyclotomic polynomials and Lehmer's question
Lehmer's Conjecture for Hermitian Matrices over the Eisenstein and Gaussian Integers