To anyone who found this thread via Google search: the first PyGMT paper has now been published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed)!
Tian, D., Fröhlich, Y., Leong, W. J., Grund, M., Schlitzer, W., Jones, M., Uieda, L., & Luis, J. M. F. (2026). PyGMT: Bridging Python and the Generic Mapping Tools for Geospatial Visualization and Analysis. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 27(7), e2026GC013105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GC013105
See the announcement on the GMT forum for details PyGMT paper "PyGMT: Bridging Python and the Generic Mapping Tools for Geospatial Visualization and Analysis" published in G-Cubed.
If you use PyGMT in your research, please consider citing the paper. Thank you for your support of the project!