The research subject is the development of information science in Croatia. Bibliometric analysis was done on the corpus of 170 PhD theses done at Croatian universities. The results of the research are presented in two parts: I Bibliometric analysis of the PhD theses in information sciences from 1978-2009, II Methodology of research and/or the research of methodology. The first part examines the development of information sciences studies; the scope of analyzed corpus; quantitative overview of the data; the analysis of citations, co-citations, and co-words. The second part deals with the study...