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

http://www.wikipaper.org/p/Why_So_Difficult

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:

http://www.wikipaper.org/p/Special:AllPages

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