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 :)