While there appeared to have been a plateau in the number of yearly publications on CNTs around 2014-2017, this number has generally increased since that time. To determine the trends that are driving this increase, we calculated the rate of change of specific applications, materials, and properties in CNT publications identified using NLP analysis. The results of these calculations were used to make a conceptual map of areas of high research areas involving CNTs. The main applications that appear to be driving growth include energy storage and conversion, sensors (particularly human motion and wearable sensors), environmental remediation and CO2 reduction, and applications where CNTs are combined with other nanoscale materials such as MXenes.