Gifted students are those who surpass their peers in cognitive development and show exceptional success and excellence in work. Their exceptionality helps them in educational situations, but it can also be a source of various problems. In order to avoid problems, it is necessary to provide exceptional attention and support to gifted students in education. The Republic of Croatia lacks such exceptional educational attention and support for the gifted as it lacks papers on them. Accordingly, this paper deals with the research of journals whose papers deal with the topic of gifted students. With the method of working on the documentation, 63 papers which were published periodically in journals, were analyzed. The results showed that out of a total of 2721 papers published in selected journals, only 2.31% of them are papers dealing with the topic of gifted students. The first research question gave us answers about the quantitative representation of papers by different categories - by the representation of papers within selected journals, by years of publication, by authors from the Republic of Croatia and other countries, by research and theoretical papers, methodology, data collection methods and the sample of respondents in research papers. The second research question revealed that out of 63 papers taken in the research analysis, the most common topic of papers is education and educated work with gifted students. The categories of the second research question dealt with the representation of the characteristics of gifted students, specific types of giftedness, identification methods, basic and other forms of educational support.