The poster contribution asks how interdisciplinary scientific work has become in fields of research relevant to agricultural science. It targets at shedding more light to the answer of this question for identifying structure and quantity of interdisciplinary scientific work within the body of scientific articles concerned with innovation assessments in plant breeding. With a combination of literature and citation network analysis (NEWMANN, 2006, 2011) different quantitative and qualitative methods targeted at analyzing innovations in plant breeding have been identified and the epistemic connections between the life, social and economic sciences were scrutinized.