**4. Limitations of the study**

This study is done for a limited period between 2000 and 2023 owing to several attributes and hence careful understanding is solicited while interpreting results. Authors have considered only articles, conference papers, book chapters, reviews and books only and there may be other avenues where the research publications may happen which is not included in this study. Also, we have considered only publications in English language excluding other language publications. This studies primary focus is on engineering application of weak soil, finite element analysis and other applications was ignored in this work. We had used Scopus as the database, further studies using Web of Science, Lens, Dimensions and other databases also needed, each database has unique indexed content and the results may vary according to the database used.
