Hi, It seems to me the main thing that is stopping the whole of the scientific community switching to Lyx is the lack of an easy way of integrating it with bibliographic management software. None of the open source bibliographic software has the functionality of Endnote, in particular the ability to search, retreive, and insert citations to online references. If there is any way of incorporating a plug-in that will do this I think Lyx may even kill off Word, in academia at least.
Cheers, P