参编著作3本，授权技术发明专利6 项。发表论文130余篇，其中SCI检索54篇，EI收录90余篇，SCI他引近500次，其中单篇引用最高164次。研究成果被SPIE Newsroom报道一次，5次受邀在国际会议中作特邀报告：    
1.《信息光学》第二版(国家“十一五”规划教材), 科学出版社, 北京, 2011年6月.    
2. 3D Dynamic Shape Measurement Using the Grating Projection Technique in     Handbook of 3D Machine Vision: Optical Metrology and Imaging, 195-218. Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, USA.?2012年12月.    
3. 《现代工程光学》, 科学出版社, 北京, 2013年9月    
4.  Qican Zhang, Xiaohui Wang, A new approach to recording the motion of flapping wings, SPIE Newsroom, 2013, 10.1117/2.1201309.005138,     http://spie.org/x2406.xml,    
5.  Zhang Qican, Wu Zhiyun. A carrier removal method in Fourier transform profilometry with Zernike polynomials. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2013, 51(3):253-60.    
6.  Zhang Qican, Su Xianyu, Xiang Liqun, etc. 3-D shape measurement based on complementary Gray-code light. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2012, 50(4): 574-9.    
7.  Zhang Qican, Wang Qingfeng, Hou Zhiling. Three-dimensional shape measurement for an underwater object based on two-dimensional grating pattern projection, Optics And Laser Technology, 2011, 43(4), 801-5.    
8.  Liu Yuankun, Su Xianyu,     Zhang Qican. A novel encoded-phase technique for phase measuring profilometry, Optics Express, 2011, 19(15), 14137-44.    
9.  Xianyu Su,     Qican Zhang. Dynamic 3D shape measurement method: A review. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2010, 48(2), 191-204. (#3 most downloaded paper January-December, 2011; #2 most downloaded paper October-December, 2010; #3 most downloaded paper October 2009 - September, 2010).    
10.   Zhiling Hou,     Qican Zhang. Interpolation algorithm for recovering the missing phase values in 3D measurement. Optik. 2010, 121(14), 1324-9.    
11.  Qican Zhang, Xianyu Su. High-speed optical measurement for the drumhead vibration. Optics Express. 2005, 13(8), 3310-6.    
12.  Qican Zhang, Xianyu Su, Yiping Cao, etc. An optical 3-D shape and deformation measurement for rotating blade using stroboscopic structured illumination. Optical Engineering. 2005, 44(11), 113601.    
13.  Qican Zhang, Xianyu Su. An optical measurement of vortex shape at a free surface. Optics and Laser Technology, 2002, 34(2), 107-13.    
14.  Xianyu Su, Wenjing Chen, Qican Zhang, etc. Dynamic 3-D shape measurement method based on FTP. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2001, 36(1): 49-64.