先后主持山西省基础研究计划面上项目1项、山西省高等学校科技创新项目1项、山西省应用基础研究计划青年项目1项、忻州市科技计划重点研发项目1项、“1331工程”五台山文化生态协同创新中心专项课题1项、忻州师范学院科研基金资助项目1项、河北省研究生创新资助项目1项;参与科技部项目2项、国家自然科学基金面上项目2项、河北省自然科学基金面上项目1项、忻州师范学院教学改革创新项目1项。发表学术论文30余篇(其中SCI论文22篇),参编著作3部。授权国家发明专利1项、实用新型专利2项。
山西省应用基础研究计划面上项目“基于形态与分子数据的中国苦伪蝎科系统分类研究”(202403021211040,7万元,2024.07-2027.07),主持。
忻州市科技计划重点研发项目“忻州市小杂粮主要产区外来入侵病虫害调查与防控” (20230214,5万元,2023.12-2025.12),主持。
山西省“三区”人才计划项目(2万元,2024.8-2025.8),主持。
山西省高等学校科技创新项目“五台山蜘蛛多样性及分布格局”(No. 2019L0823,3万元,2019.07-2021.06),主持。
山西省应用基础研究计划青年项目“山西省太行山伪蝎多样性与DNA条形码”(No. 201801D221283,3万元,2018.12-2020.12),主持。
忻州师范学院科研基金资助项目“五台山伪蝎(蛛形纲:伪蝎目)分子物种鉴定”(No. 2018KY01,1.5万元,2019.01.01-2020.12.31),主持。
忻州师范学院2022年度“1331工程”五台山文化生态协同创新中心专项课题“五台山及周边地区外来入侵病虫害调查与防控”(2万元,2022.12-2024.12),主持。
河北省研究生创新资助项目“中国螯伪蝎总科系统发育研究”(No. S2016002,2.175万元),主持。
忻州师范学院2019年度校级“1331工程”项目“中国蛛缘蝽科昆虫DNA条形码研究” (No. 2019KY11,3万元,2020.01-2022.12),参与。
忻州师范学院教改项目“基于SPOC 的动物学混合式教学模式构建与实践——以忻州师范学院为例”,参与。
国家自然科学基金面上项目“中国木伪蝎总科的分类和系统进化研究(蛛形纲:伪蝎目)” (No. 31872198,58万元),参与。
科技基础性工作专项重点项目课题“中国动物志(蛛形纲,伪蝎目,螯伪蝎总科)” (No. 2015FY210300,30万元),第一主研人,参与。
科技部科技基础性工作专项“基于自然保护区的DNA条形码”子项目 (No. 2012FY110800,218万元),参与。
国家自然科学基金面上项目 “基于形态与分子数据的中国伪蝎目(蛛形纲)系统发育研究” (No. 31372154,81万元),参与。
河北省自然科学基金面上项目“基于生殖器官形态对强肢类盲蛛的分类研究” (No. C2012201022),参与。
Zhizhong Gao, Feng Zhang &Harvey, M.S.(2025)New Asian pseudoscorpions improve the phylogenetic resolution of Garypinoidea (Pseudoscorpiones).Invertebrate Systematics39: 1–18. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao,Jianzhou Sun& Feng Zhang (2025) Intruders in beehives? New bee-associatedEllingseniusspecies (Pseudoscorpiones, Cheliferidae) from China based on morphological data and molecular analyses, with comments on pseudoscorpion-bee relationships.ZooKeys1234: 259–274. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao,Muhammad Irfan& Lu-Yu Wang (2025) Three new species of the genusWeintrauboaHormiga, 2003 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China.ZooKeys1236: 185–196. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao,Kaiquan Zhang& Feng Zhang (2024) First report of the family Ideoroncidae (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from China, with description of a new species.Biodiversity Data Journal12: e117319. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, Yanmeng Hou&Feng Zhang (2023) Four new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones, Pseudotyrannochthoniidae) from Guizhou, China.ZooKeys1139: 33–69. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, Feng Zhang & Huiming Chen (2020)Two new cave-dwelling species ofTyrannochthoniusChamberlin 1929 (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) from the Guizhou karst, China.Zootaxa4853(4): 572–580. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2020)First report the genusDendrochernesBeier, 1932 (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) from China, with description of a new species.Arthropoda Selecta29(2): 229–234. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2019) First record of the genusOrochernes(Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) from China, with description of a new species.Zootaxa4612(1): 126–132. (SCI)
Xing Lida, Ryan C. Mckellar &Gao Zhizhong(2018) Cretaceous Hitchhikers: a Possible Phoretic Association between a Pseudoscorpion and Bird in Burmese Amber.Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition).92(6): 2434–2435. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, J. Judson Wynne & Feng Zhang(2018)Two new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae, Chthoniidae) from Guangxi, China.Journal of Arachnology.46(2):345–354. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, Huiming Chen & Feng Zhang(2017)Description of two new cave-dwellingBisetocreagrisspecies (Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae) from China.Turkish Journal of Zoology.41(4): 615–623.(SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, Feng Zhang & Harvey, M.S.(2017)A modified definition ofthe genusHaplochernes(Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae), with a new species from Hainan Island.Journal of Arachnology.45(1): 112–122.(SCI)
Zhizhong Gao, Yanfen Zhang & Feng Zhang (2016) Two new species of Pseudotyrannochthoniidae, including the first species ofPseudotyrannochthonius(Pseudoscorpiones) from China.Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae62(2): 117–131. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2013) Description of a newAllochthoniusspecies from China, with a key to the genus (Pseudoscorpiones Pseudotyrannochthoniidae).Entomologica Fennica23: 107–112. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2013) Pseudoscorpions from Laos with description of a new species and new records (Arachnida Pseudoscorpiones),Archives of Biological Science Belgrade,65(3), 839–850. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang(2012)A new genus and species of chernetid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones Chernetidae) from Hainan Island, China.Entomological News.122(5): 432–440.(SCI)
Yanmeng Hou,Zhizhong Gao&Feng Zhang (2022) Diversity of cave-dwelling pseudoscorpions from eastern Yunnan in China, with the description of eleven new species of the genusLagynochthoniusPseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae).Zootaxa5198(1):001–065. (SCI)
Hongru Xu,Zhizhong Gao&Feng Zhang (2022) Two new species of the pseudoscorpion subfamily Lamprochernetinae Beier, 1932 from Guizhou, China (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae).Zootaxa5105(4): 581–592. (SCI)
Yanmeng Hou,Zhizhong Gao&Feng Zhang (2022) Two new species of cave-adapted pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae) from Yunnan, China.ZooKeys1097: 65–83. (SCI)
Lingchen Zhao,Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2020)Two newAtemnusspecies (Pseudoscorpiones: Atemnidae) from Xinjiang, China.Zootaxa4869(2): 264–274. (SCI)
Wanqing Zhao, Dajun Liu,Zhizhong Gao, Jia Liu, Wenbo Yi and Hufang Zhang (2019) Complete mitochondrial genome sequence and phylogenetic implications ofChorosoma macilentum(Heteroptera: Rhopalidae).Mitochondrial DNA Part B.4(2): 3882–3883. (SCI)
Zhizhong Gao,Feng Zhang & Dawei Huang (2017) The first description of the female external morphology ofBisetocreagris cheniJia, Zhao & Zhang, 2010 (Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae) from China.Ecologica Montenegrina,2017(11): 23–27
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2016) First report of the genusCardiolpium(Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from China, with description of a new species.Ecologica Montenegrina.2016(7): 298–304.
Zhang Feng,Gao Zhizhong& Chen Huiming (2016) First Description on the female ofMegachernes glandulosusMahnert, 2009 (Pseudoscorpiones, Chernetidae).Sichuan Journal of Zoology.35(5): 723–727.
Zhizhong Gao& Feng Zhang (2016) Description of a new species of the genusAnatemnusBeier, 1932 (Pseudoscorpiones: Atemnidae) from China.Ecologica Montenegrina.2016(7): 567–572.
高志忠,赵婉清,张虎芳,张锋. (2020).苦伪蝎属1中国新纪录种(伪蝎目,苦伪蝎科). 忻州师范学院学报.36(5): 39–42.
高志忠,张锋. (2019).单伪蝎属1中国新纪录种(伪蝎目,苦伪蝎科). 蛛形学报.28(2): 83–86.
杨卓霖,高志忠,张锋. (2024). 沃氏单伪蝎:单伪蝎属1中国新纪录种(伪蝎目,苦伪蝎科). 蛛形学报. 33(01): 59–63.
赵婉清,张敏,刘佳,高志忠,伊文博,柳大军. (2020). 圆臀大黾蝽线粒体基因组密码子偏好性与COI基因适应性进化研究. 安徽农学通报.26(08): 10–14.