<p>The major thrust of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to find alternatives that amply support sustainable ways of enhancing crop production and inch towards cultivating smart resilient plants. The global climate change scenario in addition to other abiotic and biotic stresses hampers the crop yield and need to search for an efficient growth-promoting beneficial microbes, is imperative. These microbial bioinoculants communicate with phytohormones like salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylene (ET). The interaction and crosstalk amongst the phytohormones regulate the plant defense response. JA is an important class of lipid-derived hormonal signal which have multifarious roles in plant pathogen interactions, ultimately leading to the plant defense. Rhizobacteria or beneficial microbes act through induced systemic resistance where JA and ET hormonal crosstalk and signaling is involved. Thus, in this study we have extensively exploited the citation network analysis approach to find out the correlation between an important phytohormone JA and beneficial microbes to explore the existing information.</p>