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Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs) have been attracted a lot of research in recent years. In VANET, vehicles are dynamic nodes which communicating with each other by wireless technology in their own transmission range. Although VANETs are deployed in reality offering several services, the current architecture has been facing many difficulties in deployment and management because of poor connectivity, less scalability, less flexibility and less intelligence. To improve network scalability and connection reliability, a vehicle clustering algorithm, which organizes vehicles in groups, is introduced in VANET. Recently, there are various clustering and load balancing methods such as cluster-enabled capacity-based load-balancing , hybrid Ant Colony Optimization and Artificial Bee Colony (ACO-ABC) optimization, energy-aware predictive clustering approach, Vehicular Genetic Bee Clustering (VGBC), proactive load balancing mechanism, Cluster-on-Demand VANET Clustering algorithm (CDVC) along with load balancing, Link Reliability-based Clustering Algorithm (LRCA), hybrid backbone based clustering algorithm, Load Balanced Routing strategy (LBR) are analyzed and its merits and demerits are evaluated.