Agent-based models (ABMs) have been described as integrative boundary objects for interdisciplinary research, as they are rooted both in modelling human deliberation and in the interdisciplinary cases in which they are applied. This bibliometric study explores the interdisciplinarity of publications on ABMs in general and of those connecting ABMs with human deliberation in particular (via cognition and emotion) in the last 50 years. Results show an overwhelming presence of Computational sciences all along the scientific chain, from the citations used in both types of documents to where these documents are published and what type of literature cites these documents, albeit slightly less markedly when ABMs feature cognition and emotion. Despite dominating the research field, documents from Computational sciences achieve the lowest scores regarding interdisciplinarity measures and are among the least cited per document, when compared to other disciplines.