docs: add research impact statement and cite closest tools

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Why

The JOSS pre-review check on openjournals/joss-reviews#11191 asked for all required manuscript sections. The current paper format requires a Research impact statement and a build-vs-contribute justification in State of the field, and allows 750 to 1750 words.

What changed

• Add the Research impact statement: current research use, the reproducibility and community-readiness signals (public history since April 2025, two releases, archived record, continuous integration, hashed and seeded study outputs), and the published context for FMD in India.
• State of the field: cite the metapopulation frameworks closest to PatchSim (flepiMoP, MetaCast, SimInf, MetaWards, MEmilio) and the GLEaM model paper, and say why none of the three closest was extended.
• Statement of need: cite each named use case (FMD in livestock, dengue, respiratory infections across administrative regions) and expand the ARTPARK and IISc acronyms.
• Software design: state the source-multiplication rule behind the example, describe the coupling as residence-based in the sense of Sattenspiel and Dietz (1995) and Citron et al. (2021) for the ungrouped multi-patch case, say how it differs from the full model, state that an unnormalized matrix scales beta, note the reserved compartment names, cite the deterministic limitation (Riley 2007; Ball et al. 2015), and add the Sobol method citation.
• AI usage disclosure: state where the tools were used, including language checks and paraphrasing of the paper draft.
• paper.bib: 17 new entries with DOIs, and complete metadata for existing entries.

Verification

• Rendered with the JOSS openjournals/inara image: builds cleanly, every citation resolves, six pages.
• Every DOI resolves and its metadata matches Crossref or DataCite; every cited key exists and every entry is cited.
• wc -w paper.md = 1706, inside the 750 to 1750 band.
• No code changes; ruff and pytest unchanged.

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Walkthrough

The PR revises the PatchSim paper and bibliography. It adds 17 references, updates citation metadata, clarifies transition and coupling notation, expands tool comparisons and software-design details, and revises research-impact and AI-usage disclosures.

Changes

Paper documentation update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bibliography records paper.bib	Three existing records are revised, and 17 article records are added for epidemic modeling, disease dynamics, mobility, simulation frameworks, and sensitivity analysis.
Paper scope and field positioning paper.md	The paper updates transition syntax, related-tool comparisons, PatchSim’s configuration-first workflow, ARTPARK usage, and research-impact details.
Technical model description paper.md	The paper clarifies infectious-pressure coupling, fixed population denominators, weight handling, solver behavior, validation, reproducibility, limitations, and AI usage.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0280c

This change updates paper documentation and bibliography content without any identified merge-blocking risk.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main changes: adding a research impact statement and citing related tools in the documentation.

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