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Agreed. Most research papers are a headache to read, even in a field you are familiar with. The full list of reasons is here:

The site above ^^ has not launched yet, but should help alleviate the problem.

The site has launched far enough to attract spammers. It looks like you've got some cleaning and monitoring to do:

Bookmarked your site, looks interesting for this non-academic.

You have chosen the path of the laity.

One of the key questions after the first pass is "is this well-written enough to keep reading?"